The 97 contributors to the Nancy Drew Anthology (Silver Birch Press, October 2016) are sending photos featuring the book in their home environments for a series we’re calling “Nancy Drew Around the World.” Author Tricia Knoll provided this photo taken at the poetry box outside her house in rainy Portland, Oregon, with the remnants of holiday decorations. Tricia contributed the poem “The Secret at Shadow Ranch,” featured below, to the collection.
The Secret at Shadow Ranch
—the fifth Nancy Drew volume
Oh give me a home
where shadows share
mirror limbs and leanings
whisper, weighing
nothing, casting backwards.
In slipshod light, gallop me
somewhere new.
When shadows evaporate
at corners, play hide and seek.
When they beg to race,
saddle up. Stow your secret
watch, find the red-rock cave,
listen to the old woman’s wisdom.
Stretch me longer
than before.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Tricia Knoll is an Oregon poet whose work appears in many journals and anthologies. Her chapbook Urban Wild focuses on human interactions with wildlife in urban habitat. Ocean’s Laughter (2016) combines lyric and eco-poetry to look at change over time in a small Oregon North Coast town. Her website is triciaknoll.com.
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