Fritz Ward

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Fritz Ward was born in Orange, California and was educated at Eckerd College. He received a M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the recipient of the Cecil Hemley Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of America, and was included in Best New Poets 2007 (University of Virginia Press, 2007). His chapbook, Doppelganged, was released by Blue Hour Press in 2012, and his full-length manuscript, has been a semi-finalist for the Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Prize, the National Poetry Series, and a finalist for several other contests. His work has been published in American Letters & Commentary, Gulf Coast,, Blackbird, Salt Hill, DIAGRAM, Hotel Amerika, and many other fine journals. He lives just outside of Philadelphia and works at Swarthmore College.)

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A pond no larger than your concept
of heaven. The shadowy-orange shapes
of koi.
A tree so small and sculpted
it's someone's child. And stones.
Always stones near the water. And light,
with all its blinding accusations.

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