*** High here on Hawk’s Nest, No hawks fly tonight; Songbirds heading south or west or east, Or where sons and daughters Have gone for good, Regain the sky, Winging up over cottonwood crowns and this hill’s weedy crest To flutter in mid-flight in front of our eyes. Barley fields and summer fallow Far away […]
Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 by Larry Woiwode
*** I am a deserted barn, my cattle robbed from me, My horses gone, Light leaking in my sides, sun piercing my tin roof Where it’s torn, I am a deserted barn. Dung’s still in my gutter; It shrinks each year as side planks shrink, Letting in more of […]
Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 by Larry Woiwode
*** The great green earth revolves and in Its turn to us reveals not active fate Nor recompense on scoria ground But quiet talks at the gate. Our lanes of back-east pastureland Listen in on winter light, As haunted as I feel haunted by The 9/11 strike I Carry still, and then come snowy Hoof […]
Tuesday, 01 November, 2022 by Larry Woiwode
Modern Reformation is pleased to welcome Larry Woiwode, poet laureate of North Dakota, as the new poetry editor. Larry is the author of the poetry collection Even Tide (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977) and a chapbook, Land of Sunlit Ice (NDSU Press, 2016). His poetry has appeared in The Atlantic, Harpers, The New Yorker, The […]
Saturday, 01 January, 2022 by Larry Woiwode