Gail Fishman Gerwin
Cellar
Snow days
he'd head down,
our frigid flat
a signal—time
to stoke
the furnace.
Coal through
the chute a
cruel blue mass
five feet high.
By spring a
tarred floor ring
my father
left behind.
Bio
Gail Fishman Gerwin's memoir Sugar and Sand was a 2010 Paterson Poetry Prize finalist and her upcoming collection Dear Kinfolk, will be out later this year. In addition to writing poetry, Gail has authored several plays. She is associate poetry editor of Tiferet.