Author Archives | Anne Valley-Fox
Anne Valley-Fox has published four books of poetry: How Shadows Are Bundled (University of New Mexico Press, 2009), Point of No Return (La Alameda Press, 2006), Fish Drum 15 (Fish Drum Press, 1999) and Sending the Body Out (Zephyr Press, 1986). She has also published five books of nonfiction (one co-authored with Sam Keen; four co-edited with Ann Lacy). For more please see AnneValleyFox.com.
Weekly Poem: Taken by Storm
Up near the northern border of North Dakota
the third day of an arctic blizzard, a social worker
loads her hatchback with jackets and coats
and drives the frontage road beside a frozen river.
She comes to a man wrapped in a hospital blanket
seated on cardboard on top of a bed of snow.
He doesn’t want the jacket she offers.
“Then I can take you to shelter,” she says...
Things That Want to Be Counted
24. March 2013
Someone on earth is counting—
night stars,
rooms in a honeycomb,
snow geese descending, wild
lilies, grain spilled from a bushel basket,
bubbles rising up from the Blue Hole.
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24. January 2014
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