Letter from the Back Porch
Quiet things are passageways
to other quiet things.
One cracks, another grows.
Grass gives up to dust.
Somewhere, clocks advance
while other clocks reverse,
the hissing continuous,
a slow release.
I would never ask you
to come back
as I don’t contain ideas
like come back
or I,
or you.
In the space below, snouting
visitors, they come, they go.
Something scrapes and once–
the hollow beat of dancing.
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Sara Biggs Chaney received her Ph.D. in English in 2008 and currently teaches first-year and upper-level writing in Dartmouth’s Institute for Writing and Rhetoric. Her most recent chapbook, Ann Coulter’s Letter to the Young Poets, was released from dancing girl press in November, 2014. Sara’s poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in RHINO, Sugar House Review, Columbia Poetry Review, [PANK], Juked, Thrush Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. You can catch up with Sara at sarabiggschaney.com.
