Seattle publisher Rose Alley Press has produced an anthology of work by 42 Northwest poets, Many Trails to the Summit, edited by David D. Horowitz. Included is this poem by Seattle writer Elizabeth Austen:

“Winter Garden”

Nothing to be done

but wait. That’s your whole job —

resting and waiting and by God

that’s difficult enough, giving up

everything you know

about resilience, persistence,

winning. Listen

when the signal comes—

and it always comes—

we will all turn over

and begin again, facing the wind

and the place in the clouds

where we last felt sun.

—Open Books: A Poem Emporium, Seattle