“The Last Day” by Faith S. Holsaert

A new poem by alumna Faith S. Holsaert (poetry, ’82) is published online in Glass:

The Last Day

-after Lucille Clifton

I will ride a freckled mare
Into the sturdy mother oaks,
the bending birches of the aunt,
the moody autumn maple of the father,
the dogwood gleaming from inside       she
bitch lover I chose.

Finish reading online at Glass.