Tod Marshall is the author of three poetry collections, Dare Say, selected for the University of Georgia’s Contemporary Poetry Series; The Tangled Line; and Bugle. His interviews with contemporary poets were collected in Range of the Possible, a 2003 New York Public Library Poetry Reading List selection. Marshall is a 2015 recipient of a Humanities Washington Award for outstanding service and creativity in the humanities and the 2016–2018 poet laureate of Washington State.

Spring Begins in Checotah, Oklahoma

An iPoem

by Tod Marshall

Among locust with prickly thorns,
scrub oak, stunted hickory,
and dead leaves, a cardinal in the backyard.

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