Wildness Now Passing By by Susan Kay Anderson

The wolves live at the spot 

 where I go to feed them 

 out past the orchard 

 where trees grow 

 low to the ground 

 A chalk bright moon 

 with a personality 

 twisting  

 a slim forest 

 is a dense lesson 

 for my hiding  

 still hidden 

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Susan Kay Anderson lives in the Umpqua River Basin in Oregon. She is the author of Mezzanine (Finishing Line Press, 2019). Anderson's reviews appear in NewPages blog and Tinderbox Poetry Journal. Her poetry can be found in recent issues of Anti-Heroin Chic, Voice Lux Journal, Madness Muse, and other places. Jenee Rodriguez interviewed Anderson for The Silent World In Her Vase, and her poem, "Old New Friend" is forthcoming in Rudderless Mariner. Anderson's Please Plant This Book Coast To Coast, Virginia Brautigan Aste's memoir, will be published in 2021 by Finishing Line Press.