Synkroniciti is stoked to welcome poet Jason Ryberg from Missouri, with “Winter Cabin Fever,” a striking visual poem about spending the winter in a tiny cabin. “As/ far/ as I’m/ concerned, the/ first day of snow/ is the first day of Winter, whether/ it’s November, December or whenever…” Vulnerabilities are many–the remoteness, the cold, the snowfall, the wind, the solitude–and yet there is as abundant beauty, too. One might find it indescribably so, except Jason is poet. His love of words has him sifting through the dictionary for a word to describe this small, cozy place. Jason’s poem meanders like a thought, like gently falling snow gathering into drifts. There is no hurry here, and he slows down time for us so we can share the view. A slower life beckons.
Read “Winter Cabin Fever” in Synkroniciti’s “Vulnerable” issue, available here: https://synkroniciti.com/the-magazine/purchase-individual-issues/.
Jason Ryberg is the author of eighteen books of poetry, six screenplays, a few short stories, a box full of folders, notebooks and scraps of paper that could one day be (loosely) construed as a novel, and countless love letters, never sent. He is currently an artist-in-residence at both The Prospero Institute of Disquieted P/o/e/t/i/c/sand the Osage Arts Community, and is an editor and designer at Spartan Books. His latest collection of poems is Fence Post Blues (River Dog Press, 2023).
He lives part-time in Kansas City, MO with a rooster named Little Red and a Billy-goat named Giuseppe, and part-time somewhere in the Ozarks, near the Gasconade River, where there are also many strange and wonderful woodland critters.