Thorns. Thistles.

A lovely afternoon transforms into an actuarial accounting of time left on the planet.

Daniel Anderson is the author of three collections of poetry his most recent is Night Guard at the Wilberforce Hotel and he is also the editor of Howard Nemerov’s Selected Poems. His many awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts as well as a Bogliasco fellowship. He has received a Pushcart Prize and the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. Anderson frequently serves as a faculty member at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Oregon.