from First Light

Author: CAConrad

Publisher: Woodland Pattern (2025)

This excerpt from CAConrad's First Light was printed in celebration of their September 20, 2025 visit to Woodland Pattern in Milwaukee, Wisconsin as part of Poetry & Shelter, the national Poetry Coalition's ninth annual programming initiative on a theme of social importance.

Woodland Pattern is grateful to the Academy of American Poets and the Mellon Foundation for their support of this work.

These poems were first published in Poetry, June 2025.

Numbered edition of 100.