I Lost My Horse
by Cecily Parks • from Field Folly Snow • The University of Georgia Press
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Cecily ParksCecily Parks's chapbook, Cold Work, won the 2005 Poetry Society of America New York Chapbook Fellowship. She is a PhD candidate in English at CUNY Graduate Center.
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Field Folly Snow"This is fresh work with a surpassingly delicate sense of language. . . . a totally admirable volume."
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"It's a clear fall day in mid-October, 1961. Outside, the leaves on the maple and gingko trees are fiery crimson, those of the oak bright yellow. Subtler shades also abound. Open windows give onto high school playing fields, from which the sounds of the marching a band, rehearsing for Friday's football game against our archrivals, float in. Eighteen of us—high school seniors bound mostly for Ivy League colleges and all biting our fingernails about applications whose outcomes we shall not know for another five months—are having the time of our lives. We are reading the Aeneid."
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