A far bird sings again, a little further.There is less and less differencebetween your shadowand the shadow inside youand all the shadows,and the evening softly taking holdsays It has always been eveningand now you know.
Any Evening
James Richardson
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- March 11, 2025
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James Richardson (www.aboutjamesrichardson.com) is most recently the author of For Now (Copper Canyon, 2020). His other collections of poems, aphorisms and ten-second essays include During (winner of the Alice Fay Castagnola Prize of the Poetry Society of America), By the Numbers (a National Book Award finalist), Interglacial (a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist) and Vectors. He lives on a wooded hillside in New Jersey.
Fall 2024
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