Kathy Fagan is the author of four collections of poems, most recently Lip (2009). She teaches at Ohio State, where she also serves as Series Editor of the OSU Press/The Journal Wheeler Poetry Prize.
How frosty you are in middle-age, Sycamore, just as you were in youth, only more grateful, if weary of the gratitude it takes to feel alive. By the time you light your noontime pipe, ‘tweens are waking up...
