top of page

As Many Words for Snow

Sierra Duffey

Don’t dilute the incisiveness

of sleet, precarious on the windowsill.

Your philodendron sealed

at the needlepoint of aliveness. 


You are glistening and crystalline

as the stalactites that huddle on the overhang,

delicate breaks

as copious as your weight.


You precede the seasons, their dereliction 

a radiant geometry

now weeping silver.


Your suncrest lips quiver

in the winter glow.

You sample the cleft, count the serifs.

Sierra Duffey is a multidisciplinary artist and writer in Montreal, Quebec. Through sassy poetry and textured photographs, she plays with documentation versus shaping the surreal, focusing on natural environments and interpersonal care. She is the author of lemon drop lyrics (Cactus Press, 2023) and other written and visual works.

bottom of page