“False Spring” by Emily W. Pease (Fiction ’00)
Fiction alumn Emily Pease was recently featured in Juniper. Read an excerpt of the poem “False Spring” below:
False Spring
As when the mare feels a foal within
and her milk flows, false hope. As when
she shifts in her stall, phantom hooves
kicking in an imagined trot. As when
she’s hitched to a plow at dawn, begins
carving frozen ground.
Continue reading the poem here: False Spring by Emily W. Pease | JUNIPER
