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  • Her Lot
  • Camille Dungy (bio)

After the long winter, the gray and whitegeese did not return. The compostturned around its tunnels and their worms.There were snowdrops and, soon enough,yolk-eyed daffodil. She hadn’t expectedthe lot to be this lonely. The swing stillswung where he hung it on the sturdiestbranch of the hybridized elm. No diseasethreatened this arbor. No, everythingin the yard looked just as healthyas before. Except, groping for koi, raccoonshad done too much damage. She’d lovedthe pond. Loved it since he dug itand brought her out of the house to seethe lotus and the splashing little fallof his own design. But all those,too, she’d had to cover up with sod. [End Page 494]

Camille Dungy

CAMILLE DUNGY is Professor of English at Colorado State University. She is author of three volumes of poems, Smith Blue, Suck on the Marrow (winner of the American Book Award in 2011), and What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison. She has edited three anthologies, Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems That Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great, and Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade.

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