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Cindy Nichols

Cindy Nichols is a professor of creative writing. Her poems have been published widely.

Poetry

Winter 1987

Garden Story

By Cindy Nichols

Out of the still center of the big field near our house,from the burned-out, tangled heapof felled trees there— the black mass you can glance atsidewise, and still see flames, […]

Poetry

Winter 1987

Owl

By Cindy Nichols

I was driving, just creeping, really,along a country road in winter, late in the day.A narrow, icy strip of roadand one house there, and one over there,asleep in the trees.I […]