“The Sower,” by Kristen Staby Rembold (Poetry ’06)

Poetry alum Kristen Staby Rembold was recently featured in The Hopper. Read an excerpt of Rembold’s poem “The Sower” below:

The Sower

Since she spent her days as a mother will—
always with a child,

their fingers roots and she the soil—
she did as any woman would,

savored the pitch-dark
before the dawn, or after the bedding-down…

Read this poem in its entirety here: http://www.hoppermag.org/the-sower