Nina Prater
How I Feel Every Night After My Kids Fall Asleep
The trees
can relax
into the cold
now their leaves
have fallen
to the floor
of the forest,
the slow job
of building
just one ring
done for another year.
An Ozark poet, Nina Prater lives in the woods with her husband, children, dogs, ducks, chickens, bunnies, turtles, a gerbil, and a guinea pig.