Poems

At dawn, the fairies rush for the shore—but their moonlit ships are gone. In Samuel G. Goodrich’s playful legend, the stranded revelers find a new way to linger: as hummingbirds, flashing from flower to flower.

These poems move from the fragrant groves of a fairy-tale island to the vast, shadowed shores of Lake Superior, then follow a fallen leaf from spring’s brightness toward the sea. Goodrich’s voice can tease and sparkle, then turn suddenly tender, finding human partings and vanishing joys in the changes of the natural world. A dance becomes a legend; a wilderness seems to hold a spirit; a leaf’s journey begins to resemble a life. What might the next image reveal about the fragile passage from delight to loss?

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