Eric Huff (he/him) is a poet and public-school teacher living and working in the west metro area of the Twin Cities. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as 1913: A Journal of Forms, Rockvale Review, Curator Magazine, Feral: A Journal of Poetry and Art, Aesterion, and The Forge Zine among others.
my eyes are
at the tree line,
at the prairie’s edge.
little movements,
and all stillness
the winds will shift and carry the rattle,
the spook of the sandhill cranes.
as night settles,
eyes wide to starlight and
nothing else.
bronze earth. sable leaves pressed beneath the icy
pond. the wind cuts through the wood –
where do you bury the sunlight, the little bit
tucked in your lip?
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