I gave up on god years ago,
replacing
her with
sex,
poetry,
woods,
wine.
The last
of the winter northers
came through last night.
My daughter huddles
by the Dearborn heater
David Taylor is a lecturer in the English Department at the University of North Texas and has written and edited three books: Pride of Place: A Contemporary Anthology of Texas Nature Writing (UNT Press, 2006), South Carolina Naturalists: An Anthology, 1700-1860 (University of South Carolina Press, 1998) and Lawson’s Fork: Headwaters to the Confluence (Hub City Writer’s Project, 2000).