for Chrissy, 28 October 2011
My love, the fox is in the yard.
The snow will bear his print a while,
then melt and go, but we who saw
his way of finding out, his night
of seeking, know what we have seen
and are the better for it. Write.
Let the white page bear the mark,
then melt with joy upon the dark.
David Mason’s books include Sea Salt: Poems of a Decade, 2004-2014 (Red Hen, 2014) and Davey McGravy: Tales to Be Read Aloud to Children and Adult Children (Paul Dry, 2015). As a librettist, Mason collaborated with Lori Laitman on her opera The Scarlet Letter, which will premiere at Opera Colorado in 2016. Poet Laureate of Colorado from 2010 to 2014, he teaches at Colorado College.
