his recent poem
carves a canoe from
a tulip tree—starlight
glistens in the spray of
the ebbing tide
Author: Penny Harter
Penny Harter is published widely in journals and anthologies. Her most recent books are Recycling Starlight (2010), The Night Marsh (2008) and The Beastie Book (2009), a hardcover children's alphabestiary of imaginary creatures. Recipient of three poetry fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and a 2011 fellowship from Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, she has also won awards from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the Poetry Society of America, and the William O. Douglas Nature Writing Award. She is also the co-author with her husband, William J. (Bill) Higginson, of The Haiku Handbook.
For Two Horses By the Fence at VCCA
They stand there, side-by-side, seemingly unmoving, gazing off toward the mountains. Now and then the darker one slowly turns his head to look at me, one brown eye
Winter Stars
My neighbor fills her winter garden with oaktag cut-outs of red and yellow stars—hangs them from her bird feeder or glues them atop the planting sticks she’s