Thomas R. Smith is the author of four full-length books of poems: Keeping the Star (1988), Horse of Earth (1994), The Dark Indigo Current (2000), and Waking before Dawn (2006). His chapbook, Kinnickinnic, appeared in 2008. He was included in The Best American Poetry 1999 (Scribner, edited by Robert Bly), and his poems have been featured on Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. He lives in River Falls, Wisconsin. Photo © Jens Gunelson. www.ThomasRSmithpoet.com