My mother / woke me one Christmas morning / to tell me they were here, their heads / and necks shimmering like tree tinsel, / their long tail feathers bright / as new copper pipes.
Author
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Grant Clauser is the author of five books, most recently Muddy Dragon on the Road to Heaven (winner of the Codhill Press Poetry Award). Poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Greensboro Review, Kenyon Review, Tar River Poetry, and others. He works as an editor in Pennsylvania, and teaches at Rosemont College.