A Poem and an Essay by Rebecca Foust

While our email was down, we missed a poem by Rebecca Foust (poetry, ’10) titled “Abeyance,” published in the American Academy of Poets’ Poem-A-Day series:

                               letter to my transgender daughter

I made soup tonight, with cabbage, chard
and thyme picked outside our back door.
For this moment the room is warm and light,
and I can presume you safe somewhere.

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Find an essay on W.B. Yeats’ poem “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” by Rebecca at Poetry Daily: http://poems.com/Poets’%20Picks%202015/0421_Foust.html