The huffing wind seals rain/
beneath a crisp skin of ice/
sends chickens burrowing into their deep down.
Author
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Cyn Kitchen is an associate professor of English at Knox College where she teaches creative writing and literature. She is the author of Ten Tongues, a collection of short stories. She also writes poems and nonfiction, some of which appear in Fourth River, Poetry South, American Writers Review, and Poetry Quarterly. Cyn makes her home in Forgottonia, a downstate region on the Illinois prairie.