
"Half the day lost, staring at this window. I wanted to know just one true thing about the soul, but I left thinking for thought, and now two inches of snow have fallen over the meadow. Where did I go, how long was I out looking for you, who would never leave me, my withness, my here."
Photo: Susan Rogers McCreary, ©2008, "On the Way to the Highlands"
Poem: The Meadow, Kate Knapp Johnson, "Wind Somewhere and Shade" ©2001, Miami University Press, Oxford, Ohio