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Poet and Essayist Kathryn Winograd is the author of Air Into Breath, winner of the 2002 Colorado Book Award, and Stepping Sideways Into Poetry, a Scholastic Teacher's Resource book on teaching poetry in the classroom.  |
Silence. Wind. Coyote. A longhorn’s faint bawling in the November dearth of grass. Slowly, my eyes adapt. The air pales. Snow beneath the implacable pines silvers like the metallic salts of some film developing. A thread of the moon curves in the East, the whole sky filled with the bent river of the Milky Way. I count the far single lights of my neighbors scattered down to the Arkansas Valley and its thousand lights of a thousand small cities. This is why you came, I tell myself, and step slowly into the dark. from Dark Skies
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