Joseph Hutchison
Tracks
Scattered night noises
faint and friendly enough
not to wake us completely.
The next day, deer tracks
in thick driveway mud
like words poems leave
as they follow their paths
through the world we share,
drawn toward their own ends
for their own reasons.
Bio
Joseph Hutchison, Colorado Poet Laureate (2014-2019), has published 20 collections, most re-cently Under Sleep's New Moon; The World As Is: New & Selected Poems, 1972-2015; and Marked Men. His poems have appeared widely in journals— including Adirondack Review, New York Quarterly, Naugatuck River Review, and Pedestal—and in numerous anthologies, including New Poets Of The American West and A Ritual To Read Together: Poems In Conver-sation With William Stafford. He directs the Professional Creative Writing online program at the University of Denver's University College and lives in the mountains southwest of Denver.