Excerpts

Can We Meet Again?

Like So, Like So

Boy Leading a Horse (1905)

East Across the Atlantic

3 White Witches

Ted Kooser

The Fabulous

Us and Flowers

Coyotes

A poor chorus has gathered behind the hill.Too close, scathing,The shrieks and criesScratch the clouds from the stars—Rain-softened scabs.The moon bleeds and seepsInto parched grass.

Cooties

The moment I peed myself in a wagon at Humpty Dumpty preschool was the best day of my life at the time. A teacher sent me inside to change, and I came back out to a magical sight. My classmates were all pitching in to rinse out the wagon with buckets of water—filling, dumping, then …