Poetry

From Issue IV (2019)

At Dusk, in December

by TED KOOSER

Driving a gravel road in the country
I saw a hawk fly up out of a ditch
with a mouse in its beak, and it flew
along beside my car for a minute,
the mouse still alive, its little legs
running as fast as they could, and there
we were, the three of us, all going
in the same direction, west, at just
a little under forty miles per hour.

Winter Lake | PAUL ANTHONY MELHADO
Gelatin silver print, 11 x 14 in., 2002

Ted Kooser

Ted Kooser’s most recent book is Kindest Regards: New and Selected Poems from Copper Canyon Press.

Paul Anthony Melhado

Paul Anthony Melhado is a Jamaican-born artist of Portuguese descent. He has been a Queens resident for over forty years and holds degrees in psychology, education, and art. His photographic technique involves the use of late nineteenth-century equipment, such as the view camera, and early twentieth-century processes that utilize film with traditional darkroom printing.