There Is A Doe In The Winter Hayfield

Susan Gordons extraordinary language conveys us through death to dissolution and transfiguration as she bears careful caring witness to the body of a belly-shot doe day after day week after week month after month through all seasons of the weather and the soul. Time and again precise description breaks open into transcendent vision; beauty entwines with horror both driving towards the unraveling / of what comes / after everything has been undone. This is a masterpiece a poem I will cherish and revisit for many years.--Jo Radner author of Yankee Ingenuity on CD Professor of Literature Emerita American University and Storyteller