Judith Harris is the author of three poetry collections, Atonement, The Bad Secret, and Night Garden (Tiger Bark Press, 2013), as well as a critical book, Signifying Pain: Constructing and Healing the Self through Writing. She has taught at several universities in Washington, DC, and at the Frost Place.

Six Poems

by Judith Harris

Root

It is always dusk back there,
the road deserted, the house quiet.

My mother stands at the doorway,
tying her apron, her broad face
turned to the earth.


My father puts down his saw
next to the sawhorse
and crouches, bent to the weeds.
People on couch
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