Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
My books:
Albedo, Ahsahta Press, 2014.
Meridian: Tupelo Press, Winner of the Snowbound Chapbook Prize, 2012.
The Plum-Stone Game: Ahsahta Press, 2009.
Motherhouse: Pleiades Press, 2005. Winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize; finalist for the National Poetry Series; nominated for the Poets' Prize.
Fire Eater: University of Tampa Press, 2003.
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