Todd Boss's first full-length poetry collection, Yellowrocket, is forthcoming this November from W. W. Norton. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Missouri Review, New England Review, Poetry, and other publications. He is the director of External Affairs at The Playwright's Center in Minneapolis and lives in St. Paul with his wife and two children.
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In the morning we found
40 acres of oaks
torn to the ground.
The storm
had spattered barn,
house, shed, whole
farm in red mud
and a leafy shred.
My parents walked,
alone and paired,
through the weird
carnage, mourning
—downed trees still
green and breathing
as soon they would
no more—fallen
as in a war.
Virginia Quarterly Review
