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Woodland Pattern™    Book   Center Poetry Archive		Annie Finch Annie Finch is the author or editor of fifteen books of poetry, translation, and criticism. Her books of poetry include Eve, Calendars, The Encyclopedia of Scotland, and Among the Goddesses: An Epic Libretto in Seven Dreams. Her other works include several influential books of poetics, most recently The Body of Poetry and A Poet's Ear, and numerous music, art, theater, and opera collaborations. Finch's book of poetry Calendars was shortlisted for the Foreword Poetry Book of the Year Award and in 2009 she was awarded the Robert Fitzgerald Award. She currently directs the Stonecoast MFA program in creative writing at the University of Southern Maine.

A Dance for the Inland Sea Annie Finch

Water that moves, in a bodylike stream, through its cool channels fills the warm prairie's dream. Waking to tend it, the grass-moving sky pours with grasses. Big Bluestem's drinking roots lie nine feet down the waving, remembering sod they have swum through, to feed on, to build. When it swings like a wing in small flight, when it sways, turkey feet murmur, red three-toed feet sing. Little Bluestem, as copper as autumn or clay, floating seeds past the prairie's dense, watery hand till they shimmer to columns, wet smoke on the land; Indian Grass, lapping up the spattering sun; prairies step slower than palaces, down under the teeming roof of the ground, quiet as animals. Then, when they rise, prairies, like palaces, loom, and surprise.

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