Winter Tenor - Paperback

by Kevin Goodan (Author)

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Ducks in a daze with mourning doves--
Sweetness of the hay fresh mown, the clouds
Slowly stacking, the constant
Revectoring of flocks among weeds,
A dampness to northern aspects of fields
Slanting toward the river, workmen
Silent, workwomen finding shade, what remains
Of harvest not mattering as one thing bears down
Upon the other--some wind in ornamental trees,
The waxy mane of the whitest mare, whitest
From the oncoming weather-light, the foal
That does not shy from the hand that gelded it.

Author Biography

Kevin Goodan's first book, In the Ghost-House Acquainted (Alice James Books) won the 2005 L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares and American Poet, among others, and he has taught Creative Writing at the University of Massachusetts, the University of Connecticut, and Wesleyan University. He resides on a small farm in western Massachusetts.