the last gold is slipping out of the trees the surface of the pond is unruffled the far-off highway is louder without its barrier of leaves shall we dare the ghost out of the wall shall we display our love in the square shall we demand spare food for the prisoners who die inside when can we hug our children the way they do in the movies when can we catch the bat that flies in slow patient circles through our rooms
Cammy Thomas’s newest poetry collection, Tremors, came out in fall, 2021. Her first book, Cathedral of Wish, received the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. A fellowship from the Ragdale Foundation helped her complete her second, Inscriptions. All are published by Four Way Books. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, and in the anthologies Poems in the Aftermath (2017), and Echoes From Walden (2021). Two poems titled Far Past War are the text for a choral work by her sister, composer Augusta Read Thomas, premiering at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC in 2022. She lives in the Boston area.
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