Robert Wrigley
Robert Wrigley's books include Earthly Meditations (Penguin, 2006) Beautiful Country (Penguin, 2010) and Anatomy of Melancholy and Other Poems, forthcoming from Penguin in the spring of 2013. His awards include a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and the Kingsley Tufts Award. He teaches in the MFA program at the University of Idaho. "Prey" was first published in Shenandoah 46/3. Prey
We’re walking through stubble and rain- hammered grasses, the dog and I. It’s almost dawn, almost December, the western ridge is lipped with snow and already catches early sun. The canyon still deepens to the river’s black sheen. Another rooster … Continue reading