First, there are
the pinpricks in the surface
of the ice.
And then their tiny heads appear …
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Bio:
William Virgil Davis’s most recent book of poetry is Dismantlements of Silence: Poems Selected and New. His earlier books are: The Bones Poems; Landscape and Journey (New Criterion Poetry Prize and Helen C. Smith Memorial Award for Poetry); Winter Light; The Dark Hours (Calliope Press Chapbook Prize); and One Way to Reconstruct the Scene (Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize). His poems have appeared in major periodicals worldwide.