Kathryn Hunt

Kathryn Hunt is the author of Long Way Through Ruin (Blue Begonia Press, 2013). She teaches writing workshops at the Writers' Workshop in Port Townsend, Washington. She lives on the coast of the Salish Sea. 

An Offering

Animals come down through stars

to reach the valley. A coyote with

its nose pressed in a rabbit hole.

Two Sandhill cranes as tall as rain,

and listening north. And when a cougar

screams its human scream, I’m suddenly

a child again, awake, the parched air

raked by drumfire blasts, window panes

all gleam and vast, animals angling

through ripe alfalfa fields. My grandmother

holding me to the thunder-headed sky

as if I were an offering. Saying, There,

see how meager we are made. How our

bones ring with fury and light.

— Kathryn Hunt