Review: Ache & Snow

Snow & Ache presented together, remind me of the two sides of a coin. In this case one side is positive and hopeful, the other, negative and despairing.
Snow presents some lovely images: angels wings, grown people acting like little kids, red sleds, rekindling old flames. I also like the use of the words happier, calmness and look forward. That this poem opens and closes with the line,"Every year when the snow falls" is really nice. So nice in fact that I want to know more and see more of these great images in the middle. I think the simple couplet style works well too. I would rethink the line"Getting lost in a sea of blankets of flesh." I can guess your intent , but this sounds like it belongs in Sylvia Plath's poem Daddy not in Snow.
Repetition of the line,"My heart still aches from this pain" reminds me of a heartbeat. As if, with every beat and every breath this pain is part of you. Although the line, "This pain I cannot describe,"is contradicted by these strong descriptions: consumes me day and night, It brings me to my knees and that it is without beginning and without end, it speaks to the sense of unreality that loss can bring. "I don't know where it started"offers a good place to begin to explore what becomes obvious to the reader in the line, " All I have left is my father's death."