Poet and children’s author Janice N. Harrington grew up in Alabama and Nebraska, and both those settings figure largely in her writing. She has worked as a public librarian and now teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Illinois.
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Wind Shear
Under the magnolia, a winter-starved hare stills
and pretends it is not there,
and wanting less of fearfulness
I pretend that I do not see my camouflage, the wild promises
in my gaze, and step carefully by.
Morning, bitter morning—
lack and awful patience wait at...