2 September 2003 | Vol. 3, No. 3
The Wind Blows Coldly and He Turns Up His Collar
The ice refreezes
before the feet walk home.
We walk on newspaper photographs:
the hooded terrorist;
the winning basketball coach;
the patient rescued
from a burning hospital.
About the author:
Rustin Larson's poetry has appeared in the New Yorker, the Iowa Review, North American Review, Poetry East, the Atlanta Review, and other magazines. Crazy Star (Loess Hills Books, 2005) is his latest collection. A five-time Pushcart nominee, and graduate of the Vermont College MFA in Writing, Larson was an Iowa Poet at the Des Moines National Poetry Festival in 2002 and 2004 and has been highlighted on the public radio programs "Live from Prairie Lights" and "Voices from the Prairie." He lives in Fairfield, Iowa.
For further reading:
See the complete list of work by Rustin Larson at 42opus. Browse the contents of 42opus Vol. 3, No. 3, where "The Wind Blows Coldly and He Turns Up His Collar" ran on September 2, 2003. List other work with these same labels: poetry.
