Nancy Hanks Baird
NANCY HANKS BAIRD holds a degree in English from Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. She has been an editor and contributor to the Herbalist magazine. Her poems have appeared in Dialogue: A Journal of MormonThought and Ellipsis. She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.
March Children
Articles/Essays – Volume 28, No. 1
Her head nestled in the palm of my hand
not so long ago,
little lips tugged my breast,
fingers pink as birthday candles
Sleeping on Wood
Articles/Essays – Volume 28, No. 1
The blue ice is melting
off the high ridge,
draining down through the trees.
The blade of rock darkens in the sun.
Pieta
Articles/Essays – Volume 29, No. 2
Lying on my mother’s bed
listening to tropical rain skitter
across a mottled screen,
I hold my daughter, sprawled in sleep,
Properties of Water
Articles/Essays – Volume 29, No. 4
In the dark,
a cat will fly on rain-slicked blacktop
like a bat,
hydroplaning, flicking malevolence sideways
out of fluorescent eyes.