Emma Winsor Wood Evolutionary Process The birds learned to imitate the payphone ringing   The waterfall created the wind   The trees grew out, not up * “There was no way to reroute what had already been routed” * Boy cones and girl cones Long arms way up top   (for stability) * “What is the role of the poet   assumes there is a role” * A bear built his nest in a man’s bedroom   while the man slept outside   between propane-fueled space heaters   by his horse’s grave * “Typically, I take 10 to 20 years to write a poem” * Stranded in