Snowed Under

A luminous meditation on time's passage and the art of release, 'Snowed Under' finds Wilcox at her most resonant. Written as the old year surrenders to the new, the poem explores that delicate threshold where we stand, shedding the accumulated weight of twelve months gone by. Wilcox, never one for despair, transforms the image of being buried beneath snow into something closer to renewal: each falling flake a memory released, a burden lifted, making way for fresh light. The poem moves with quiet determination, acknowledging that we all carry our seasons of heaviness, yet insisting that transformation waits on the other side of surrender. Like much of her work from Poems of Cheer, it functions as a gentle hand on the shoulder, a reminder that endings are merely preludes. For readers seeking poetry that honors both the validity of struggle and the possibility of emergence, this piece holds particular grace.