Kathryn Stripling Byer is the author of six books of poetry, including Descent (LSU Press, 2012) and Southern Fictions (Jacar Press, 2011). She has served as North Carolina's poet laureate.

Wildwood Flower

I hoe thawed ground with a vengeance. Winter has left my house empty of dried beans and meat. I am hungry

Diamonds

This, he said, giving the hickory leaf to me. Because I am poor. And he lifted my hand to his lips, kissed the fingers that might have worn

Vanity

Without hands a woman would stand at her mirror looking back only, not touching, for how could she?

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