Darkness Sticks to Everything

Tom Hennen gives voice to the prairie and to rural communities, celebrating--with sadness, praise, and astute observations--the land, weather, and inhabitants. In short lyrics and prose poems, he reveals the detailed strangeness of ordinary things. This volume is Hennen's long-overdue introduction to a national audience. "In Falling Snow at a Farm Auction" Straight pine chair, Comfortable, In anyone's company, Older than grandmother, It enters the present, Its arms wide open, Wanting to hold another young wife.