A brook. A bone.
The two short ways
we never went.
The little poet has read
his insipid little poem
to spring, and now he's done
so we guess it's summer
and okay to take a sip as the jug
goes 'round, the poison's
sublime, hailing as it does
from the mountain, riding
the big agates down.
Nance Van Winckel's fifth collection of poems is No Starling (University of Washington Press, 2007). The recipient of two NEA Poetry Fellowships and awards from the Poetry Society of America, Poetry, and Prairie Schooner, she has new poems in Poetry Northwest, Field, Prairie Schooner, Gettysburg Review, and Crazyhorse. She is also the author of three collections of short fiction. She teaches in Vermont College of Fine Arts' MFA in Writing Program.
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