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Arrival
Midwinter, the crows take
their darkness out on day.
A thin rain falls and breaks.
I wonder at the way
the oaks unravel here
(and travel word of mouth)
another year.
Not going, I go south.
Source: Poetry (September 2008).
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 Living, Nature, Winter
POET’S REGION U.S., Western
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