We are like children who ask
where the wind lived
before all this homesick blowing began.
From the jungle of sleep, I blink into day. / I stretch my foal legs in my paddock of hay.
Richard Schiffman
Richard Schiffman is an environmental reporter, poet and author of two biographies based in New York City. His poems have appeared on the BBC and on NPR as well as in the Alaska Quarterly, the New Ohio Review, the Christian Science Monitor, the New York Times, Writer’s Almanac, This American Life in Poetry, Verse Daily and other publications. His first poetry collection What the Dust Doesn't Know was published in 2017 by Salmon Poetry.