Dawn Baker Brimley
DAWN BAKER BRIMLEY graduated from Brigham Young University and has done graduate work there, as well as teaching children's literature. She has published poetry in several journals, has won numerous awards for her poetry, and is working on a collection of Christmas poems. She has also published a collection of poetry, Waking Moments
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Koosharem, Utah — 1914
Three brass-skinned boys of Box Creek Reservation
in new Grass Valley Mercantile pants
black hair cut straight above their wary eyes
moved soft as any hunted cottontail
The Deer
There is little sound, only the gulls’
Sailing song, way off, and the gush
On the grass more muted now and slow.
Still Sounds of Winter
Waking from my loud dream
I hear only what is here:
the cornered stars rattling in glass
and the slow roll of a drumhead moon.
Christmas Conflict: 2001
How were we to know
through the thick, smoking days,
the awful rubble of terror
Christmas Carol (Post-Christmas: 2005)
As though he were sculpted there, so still
is the only Shama thrush of the winter
dripping melody among dropping needles
high in this raining forest of ironwoods