Nancy Hanks Baird

NANCY HANKS BAIRD holds a degree in English from Brigham Young Uni￾versity, Provo, Utah. She has been an editor and contributor to the Herbal￾ist 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 

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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.

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The Sound of a Going

Articles/Essays – Volume 28, No. 3

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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,

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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. 

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