Laurie Kutchins
Laurie Kutchins has published two books of poetry, Between Towns, Texas Tech University Press, and The Night Path, BOA Editions. Her poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Southern Review, Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, The New Yorker, Poetry, and various other places. She teaches creative writing and twentieth-century poetry at James Madison, and she has previously taught as visiting writer at the University of New Mexico and at Bucknell University.
| September First The sky turned over sometime in the night. While it happened I slept under a quilt of geese. My throat felt their beaks utter a parched goodbye to the dulled gold surfaces of summer. This morning the aspen leaves lean toward me. They are speaking to one another with an intimacy I've never known. When did I first hear the elk's seasonal love-call, resonant out of the ghost of dusk? Who taught me to read the sky? Twitch of a licked index finger. A page turned in the dark. |