Michael Cadnum has published nearly forty books. His new collection of poems, The Promised Rain, is in private circulation. He lives in Albany, California.
The sun floats up, and stops. / The magpie waits to be two. The sparrow hides // beside the mailbox on its iron post, hedge / nailed together by thorns.
When the hound loosed her ragged clamor, / and the rifle its seed, surely his hubris / was forgivable as he let his pursuit / see him in his tawny glamor
