Carol Light was a finalist in Narrative’s Twelfth Annual Poetry Contest. The author of the debut collection Heaven from Steam, she received the 2013 Robert H. Winner award from the Poetry Society of America. She lives with her family in Port Townsend, Washington.

Raynaud’s Weather

by Carol Light

1.

So, what did I expect? Not this: March snow
flung slantwise, ricelike, from a glowering sky.
Here at the bakery, one dapper groom
waits for his bride atop a three-tiered cake.

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