Larissa Szporluk is an associate professor of English at Bowling Green State University and the author of three books of poetry: Dark Sky Question (Beacon Press), Isolato (University of Iowa Press), and The Wind, Master Cherry, the Wind (Alice James Books).

Other poems by Larissa Szporluk in Verse Daily:
September 24, 2005:   "Cuckoo" " I nudge the eggs..."
September 14, 2005:   "Loosely Related Sheep" " Jump, uncle, jump...."
March 27, 2003:  "Matsukaze" "All that is built falls at night..."

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