David Guterson is the author of two short story collections, The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind and Problems with People (Random House, 2014), and of five novels, including Ed King and Snow Falling on Cedars, for which he received the PEN/Faulkner Award. In addition he has written a poetry collection, Songs for a Summons, and two works of nonfiction, Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense, and Descent, a memoir. Guterson lives on Bainbridge Island in Puget Sound.

Photograph by Tom Collicott.

Three Poems

by David Guterson

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In the cerebellum of another,


All is quick, including me.



How surprising in the morning
To find things as I left them.



Today I searched for a trail

But didn’t find it.



At the bottom of the box,

The flower I pressed.



In the shape of my hand,
Veins.

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