White Noise
By Fern Perkins
An unbroken landscape
Of powder on frenetic ground
Blanketing the chaos of
life and death
Into a white hum of nothingness
The muffled whumph
Of snow hitting snow
Dissolving into itself until
You aren’t sure if one was ever
two
The crunching of feet
Echo silenced
eaten by static
Hushed breathing into white fog
This fragile stillness
A hidden anticipation for what lies below
Consume me into the blind silence
Maybe then I will be
sanguine
Fern Perkins is a senior Ecology and Conservation major at UMF. They love to blend science and arts and create work that draws from the natural world. White Noise is their first publication and they hope to continue to publish creative work alongside scientific research in the future.
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