I wrote this poem in @kenyonreview.bsky.social about learning how to read animal tracks like stories in the snow. I found a lynx-hare kill site, and the red stayed with me, reminding me that the birch is hare, the hare is lynx, the cedar is deer, the deer is wolf. kenyonreview.org/piece/kill-s...

My first tree piece out in the wild! (Okay it's actually about emerald ash borer, but also, necessarily, ash trees.) I managed to keep it to exactly 500 words for the Object Lessons Impressions series, a small miracle.