Hear the warbling neighbors and grinning/
children, nervous and amiable, a clashing/
band of flames dancing at the threshold.
Darnell Arnoult
Darnell Arnoult is the author of the novel Sufficient Grace and the poetry collections What Travels With Us and Galaxie Wagon. She has received the SIBA Poetry Book of the Year Award, Mary Frances Hobson Medal for Arts and Letters, the Thomas and Lillie D. Chafin Award for Appalachian Writing, and the Weatherford Award. She lives in Mebane, North Carolina, where she continues to write, coach other writers in virtual gatherings, and critique manuscripts.