Ron Wallace is the author of twelve books of poetry, fiction, and criticism, the most recent of which is Long for This World: New and Selected Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press). He is co-director of the creative writing program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the editor of the University of Wisconsin Press poetry series.

Other poems by Ron Wallace in Verse Daily:
March 26, 2003:  "Totaled" "The day was totaled. Its hood and fenders bent..."
March 12, 2003:  "In the Virgin Islands" "Sunset: a smattering of rain..."