Sun through the study window, already high in the trees. A handprint on the storm window outside, unmistakable: thumb, bird, ring, pinkie. A downward streak as if slipping away. I am two floors up and the windows needed cleaning before me. Who is hand? Someone with a big ladder.
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postcard: Knox College
Poet Kimberly Johnson will read selections from her new book, "A Metaphorical God," at 4 p.m., Friday, April 28, in the Alumni Room, Old Main. Johnson is also author of Leviathan with a Hook and translator of an edition of Virgil's Georgics. She has published poems and essays in The New Yorker, The Southern Review, Arion, and Studies in Puritan American Spirituality. She received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, an Eisner Prize, a Barish Prize, and a McKay Prize for Latin Translation. A graduate of the University of Utah, Johnson has master's degrees from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Iowa, and a doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley. She teaches writing at Brigham Young University.
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