Amber Flora Thomas is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently, Red Channel in the Rupture. She teaches creative writing at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina.
Summer Field Probably I made the sag in the barbwire where anyone could get through to the field, summers after the rancher moved the sheep off to better grazing. I got there when the wild rye and brome was high and the crickets swung too heavy for the yellow fray,