Saturday, February 10, 2024

JODY GLADDING ~





hill wife


beside the grave

the ties gave


was she there

everywhere


in the fern

or return


when he called her

of black alder


on her lips

the fresh chips


or felled tree

she was free


and no child

and too wild



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Jody Gladding

Translations from Bark Beetle

Milkweed Editions, 2014