I got a chance to meet poet Natasha Trethewey on the Mall in Washington, DC last weekend as part of the 2004 National Book Festival (http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/), in the Poetry Pavilion (http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/04/pavilions/poetry/index.html).

Here's their page on her:
http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/04/authors/bios/trethewey.html

Also check out Natasha's page at Emory:
http://www.creativewriting.emory.edu/faculty/trethewey.html

Great imagery in her work, and a fascinating melding of cultures in her genealogy and life experience.

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Cross

Spreading intersected contrails
Like the frost lines off the skates
in Fantasia’s winter scene

Growing, living crystals
written on water vapor, molecules
not celluloid

Purposeful strokes, thrust across the sky
warming and fading, dying
in the October sunset

http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Contrail

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Half a V

A living line
row of stitches
snaking across the sky
Geese heading south
with only half a V

Discordant sight
Out of sync
Struggling
for warmer climes

All of my poems are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012. All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss for usage. See all 18,710+ of my poems at http://www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.