Jane Springer

Jane Springer is the author of two collections of poetry, Dear Blackbird, (Agha Shahid Ali Prize, 2007) and Murder Ballad (Beatrice Hawley Award, 2012). Her honors include a Pushcart Prize, an NEA fellowship, and a Whiting Writers’ Award, among others. She lives in upstate New York with her husband, son, and their two dogs, Leisure-Lee and Woofus.

Admonitions for the Homesick Wingèd

I should stop smoking. For in my body, the world’s largest moth
closes her wings over Georgia, U-pick tomato fields,
red ripe plump lungs I had back then, dew wet, pungent, we can’t
all be tough fruit...