Poetry Magazine
Scree
I have seen the arrested
shrub inform the crag with grief.
Lichens crust the rocks with red.
Thorns punctuate the leaf.
Sorrow is not a desert
where one endures the other—
but footing lost and halting
step. And then another.
Source: Poetry (June 2007).
Biography
Heidy Steidlmayer's poems have appeared in Poetry, TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, Literary Imagination, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. Steidlmayer is the recipient of the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize from Poetry and a Rona Jaffe Writers' Award. She is the author of a book of poems, Fowling Piece (2012).
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Nature, Living, Sorrow & Grieving, Animals
POET’S REGION U.S., Western
Poetic Terms Imagery, Epigram, Syllabic, Metaphor
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