I am so grateful to end this week of shortened daylight and lengthened classroom hours with a poem published by Peatsmoke Journal. Editors Bess Cooley and Wendy Wallace strive to “give readers a place to find exciting new work that inspires, stirs, surprises, and sparks the empathetic imagination.” I am thankful when my work finds its page. “Prayer for the Wildness” is in good company.