When in the field, the woman often wrapped herself into a pose called horse. She blocked her face to become the...
Katie Ford
The Music Hall
After decades of being unable to do so, she found herself again able to believe the end of this body is not the end of...
The Writer
Loneliness was the most specific condition she found herself communing with; it came with force, actualizing her...
Two Drawings
She began to draw a picture for a friend she had grown distant from. The drawing required a landscape with a village...
The Painter
The painter may or may not have believed in the realm of spirits, or God, or some animating source of a cosmos which,...
Earth
If you respect the deadand recall where they diedby this time tomorrowthere will be nowhere to walk.Katie Ford is the...
Flag
Some come to this ruin and raise a flag.Some take a prophet too soon by the hand.The dead are still lost and the lost...
Katie Ford is the author of If You Have to Go (Graywolf Press, 2018); Blood Lyrics (Graywolf Press, 2014); Colosseum (Graywolf, 2008); and Deposition (Graywolf Press, 2002). Ford is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship and the Larry Levis Reading Prize. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside.