Go Wolf Hunter
by Khadijah Lacina
Lacina’s poems are like tiny spells rooted in the earth’s bloom, rumble of thunder on a cool night, werewolves and teeth in the moonlight. There’s a wildness in her short lines and star-shadowed poems, a call to home and land and connection. Read them with us and see what you might conjure. (Porkbelly Press, 2021).
24 pages
open edition
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EXCERPT
2.
a wolf
a man
half formed
seen at the
moment
the earth
freed the
wind as
the sun
slipped
away
a dream
of blood
bonedeep
each step
falling
catching
pushing
forward
toward
home
go wolf
hunter
chase
hunger
run
you
cannot
lay your
head
here
tonight
ABOUT THE POET
Uprooted from her adopted home in Yemen by the Arab Spring, Khadijah Lacina returned to America wanting nothing more than to rediscover a community and sense of place. She has found both in Wisconsin’s Kickapoo Valley, where she grew up. She homesteads there with her children, goats, chickens, dogs, and many cats. She is a writer, teacher, and healer, focusing on living and teaching Earth care, people care, creating and sharing abundance, and social justice.
Her poems have appeared in journals including Otata, Solitary Plover, SWIMM, Three Drops in a Cauldron, Nixes Mate, Sunflower Collective, and Bramble, as well as several anthologies. A Slice of Sunshine: The Poetry of Colors was published in 2012, and her chapbooks Nightrunning and Under the Sky were both published by Facqueuesol Books in 2018.
ABOUT THE COVER ARTIST
Kathleen Piercefield is a painter and printmaker whose work reflects her lifelong interest in nature and literature. Originally from the Chicago area, her current home and studio are in Northern Kentucky. She majored in studio arts at Murray State University, studied watercolor at the Baker-Hunt Foundation in Covington, and earned a BFA in printmaking from Northern Kentucky University. She’s a member of Tiger Lily Press and Northern Kentucky Printmakers, and is passionate about keeping the “archaic” practices of traditional printmaking alive. Her work has been exhibited regionally and nationally, and is in a number of public and private collections.