The Poetry of Sue Kunitz

Published Works:
A Day in Winter's Mouth
Betty
The Boss
Braced for Impact
Dryer
Ice Speaks
Love in Winter
The Moon
Paddling
The Secret Dancer
She Wolf
Telephone Lines
What Doesn't Feel Like Work
Women's Retreat
Words

A Day in Winter's Mouth

All suns and moons run to
This day
Frost beats upon the belly of earth
Trees undress
As they catch the sun
This day
Outside the door of earth
Pounds

This day
Hunts for us
Through rivers and streams
This day
Though winter holds it
In its mouth
Roars

Published in The Pen Woman (December 2005)