April 2018
Dianna Henning
gammonmackinnon@diannahenning.com
gammonmackinnon@diannahenning.com
I live in Lassen County on six acres with my husband Kam and malamute Sakari. The trees and mountains inspire me; the solitude nourishes me. I run a workshop Thompson Peak Writers’ Workshop and have taught in prisons and schools. Work published in: The Red Rock Review, The Kentucky Review, The Main Street Rag and other magazines. Nominated for a Pushcart, Blue Fifth Review 2015. My third book Cathedral of the Hand published 2016 through Finishing Line Press. Website: www.diannahenning.com
A WORD LED ME INTO A FOREST
OF TALL TREES & EVERGREENS
The lovely poem married a dog.
When the poem wanted inspiration,
the dog fetched. When the dog wanted
a bone, the poem wrote a piece
entitled Bone. So it went
as years stacked their harvest,
and the two grew old and brittle.
One day as they sat on their porch
sipping lemonade, the dog said to the poem,
“I’ve fetched my entire life and now
I’m tired of chasing after things.”
“Me too,” replied the poem,
and they both settled into the ease
of becoming the day and the night,
something that easily rolls over.
Published in Poetry International, Issue 11, 2007
A WORD LED ME INTO A FOREST
OF TALL TREES & EVERGREENS
The lovely poem married a dog.
When the poem wanted inspiration,
the dog fetched. When the dog wanted
a bone, the poem wrote a piece
entitled Bone. So it went
as years stacked their harvest,
and the two grew old and brittle.
One day as they sat on their porch
sipping lemonade, the dog said to the poem,
“I’ve fetched my entire life and now
I’m tired of chasing after things.”
“Me too,” replied the poem,
and they both settled into the ease
of becoming the day and the night,
something that easily rolls over.
Published in Poetry International, Issue 11, 2007
©2018 Dianna Henning
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