Last night I dreamt
I slept in the elbow
of a peach tree,
more cradle than trapeze.
The stars were no more
than faint pinpricks,
faded flowers on midnight calico.
The wolves waited below
as discerning
and clever
as mousetraps.
Amy L. Fair (she/her), born and raised in West Virginia, makes her home in rural Oregon, where she lives on the native land of the Cow Creek band of the Umpqua tribe. She teaches at a small community college and plans to grow old without any grace whatsoever.