by Linda Bamber
Footprints on the path
windprints on the chain-link fence.
Or did the fence-snow drop in stillness
silent,
willess?
Linda Bamber is a Professor of English at Tufts University. Her poetry collection, Metropolitan Tang, and her fiction collection, Taking What I Like, were both published by David R. Godine. Bamber’s work has appeared in periodicals such as The Harvard Review, The Nation, Ploughshares, The New York Times Book Review, The Kenyon Review, Plume and The Missouri Review. Her book on Shakespeare was published by Stanford University Press. She is currently writing a novella based on the cross-country expedition of Lewis and Clark.