Creative Minds

2024 Issue No. 2

Cadenza in Snow White
by Hadi Hakam

Hadi Hakam is a current graduate student in English literature. His poem is inspired by Michael James Dennison’s The Submerged Mind, whose utilization of weaponry caused him to reflect on how hopefulness can be a deadly vice.

Cadenza in Snow White

A small figure looms over there
where, you ask?
There!

A shift of brilliance atop the hill
the figure, porcelain? Glass? Ceramic?
All that we know; a pearlescent glare.

Slowly balancing, dancing between sides Apostatizing snowflakes swinging to and fro A chaos, a harmony in destruction
A eulogy writ through light and snow
A remembrance of affront against something

Crass copper lodging in your head
as of gods who’s in? who’s not.
Do you hear it, the whistle?

A tender caress of wind
A blood-red dye
And iron rusts the air

The rondo choir finishes
the cloud mist lifts
and that shine remains

there

After the skin turns blue after the snow’s un-dyed the figure still looms over

shining

there.