Emma Winsor Wood

Evolutionary Process


The birds learned to imitate the payphone ringing
 
The waterfall created the wind
 
The trees grew out, not up

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“There was no way to reroute what had already been routed”

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Boy cones and girl cones


Long arms way up top
 
(for stability)

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“What is the role of the poet
 
assumes there is a role”

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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

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“Typically, I take 10 to 20 years to write a poem”

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Stranded in



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