Oklahoma in Winter
is no place to live
not tonight.
We carry, we name our own.
Pebble
underfoot
bothers
cold, cold water
and we roll our pants up,
carry the pebble home.
Stacy Kidd’s poems have appeared in Boston Review, Columbia, Eleven Eleven, WITNESS, and The Iowa Review, among others. Her chapbooks About Birds and A man in a
boat in the summer were released this fall from dancing girl
press and Beard of Bees.