Chester Creek Press, 2005
12 poems, with woodcuts by Susan Jane Walp
Old Moon
The whole of me
from which
emerged
one
perfect child
is what gives way
what gives way
back
into where
it turns
to no one
else's home
again--
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Chapiteau Press, 2000
What could be better than going
before the hardwoods
leaf out to blur
the distinctions between
light and shade
along the same dirt road
for a walk again
but without boots or jacket
and that much lighter
it's so clear
my happiness
will go on here
without me
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“Poppies, kale, sorrel, apples, persimmons . . . like Medea gathering the necessities for her transforming potions, Gladding gathers into these austere poems the things of this earth and the silences surrounding them. . . . they sing in unsettling, unpredictable ways.”
—Laurie Sheck
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