Verse Daily: Cecily Parks

Today's poem is "The Fern Seed"

from River Styx

Cecily Parks's chapbook, Cold Work, was selected by Li-Young Lee for the 2005 Poetry Society of America New York Chapbook Fellowship and was published in December. The last line of her poem "The Fern Seed" is taken from Thoreau.
Other poems by Cecily Parks in Verse Daily:
May 5, 2005: "Vessel" ""Little canoe, you / predict ripples, rapids, and pockets..."
June 3, 2003: "Pink Salmon" by Cecily Parks
September 20, 2002: "Chevron and Swoop" by Cecily Parks
About River Styx:
Poets in this issue: Jay Bridgers, James Doyle, Jeanne Emmons, Cathryn Essinger, Albert Goldbarth, Dorainne Laux, Timothy Liu, Holaday Mason, Joseph Millar, Darren Morris, Aimee Nezukumatathil, Cecily Parks, Lisa Pepper, Jennifer Perrine, Suzanne Rhodenbaugh, Michael Salcman, Shane Seely

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Editor: Richard Newman

Other poems from River Styx in Verse Daily:
January 25, 2006: "Single-Lens Reflex" by Debra Kang Dean
January 12, 2006: "Becoming Involved" by Elizabeth Rees
June 2, 2005: "Eighty From Seventy-Eight" by William Gass
May 31, 2005: "Maybe" Myrna Stone
May 30, 2005: "Chum" Lucia Perillo
July 2, 2004: "In Ambient Light" by Greg Rappleye
June 30, 2004: "Darwin Enters the City of His Birth" by Melanie Dusseau
September 4, 2003: "Luxembourg Gardens at Twilight" by James Doyle
September 3, 2003: "Thank You" by Molly Peacock
March 7, 2003: "Love, with Trees and Lightning" by Catie Rosemurgy
March 6, 2003: "A Leopard Hanging in a Tree" by Eric Rawson
March 3, 2003: "Waiting With a Stranger" by David Simpson
February 25, 2003: "Fame and Fortune Cookie" by Richard Cecil
December 6, 2002: Small Ghost Poem by Lawrence Raab
December 4, 2002: Bride by Jeanne Marie Beaumont
September 16, 2002: "Advertisement for the Ford Explorer" by David Roderick
July 27, 2002: "Heroic Roses" by Elton Glaser

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