About Charlotte Matthews

Charlotte Matthews’ first book of poetry, Green Stars, is forthcoming from Iris Press in January 2006. She also has two published chapbooks, A Kind of Devotion, (Palanquin Press, 2004) and Biding Time (Half Moon Bay Press, 2005). Her work has also recently appeared in Borderlands, Sou’wester, The Mississippi Review, Meridian, and Potomac Review. Her work has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

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To the Men Who Mow the County Graveyards

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It won’t be long before the designs you form are echoed
in the shivering leaves of an ash tree right there on the hillside
and because it’s November those patterns will remain
all winter long, a sort of engraved, emblazoned pattern.

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