M a r y   B u c h i n g e r

 

 

 

 

 

 

stranger

 

I love the forest of you,

how dark it is and bewildering.

 

In you, wolves and mushrooms,

spiders, moss, trillium, scat,

 

branches to climb and to break

into kindling—the danger of you

 

is me searching. Storm and sweep

the long-needled pine, bow low

 

to my fireweed, open into a silver

glade where a woman can suffer

 

the respect of tall inhabited grasses,

the nods of turning nomad leaves.

copyright 2014 by Mary Buchinger

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guest editor: Sara Biggs Chaney

The Note

Lauren Gordon

Mary Buchinger

Sarah J. Sloat

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