Kim Haines-Eitzen

Kim Haines-Eitzen is a professor at Cornell University. As a poet, she draws from her childhood in the Middle East and her current life in the lush Finger Lakes region of central New York and the high deserts of Arizona. Her poetry has been published in Cathexis Northwest Press and her photography has been exhibited at State of the Art Gallery in Ithaca, New York.

“Etchings,” “True and False, East to West” and “The Blue Hour”

The one-seed juniper defiant
in a sand-drenched wash
grasps against wind and rain.
Earth engraved by crawling roots
broad sap-scented trunk tanned soft
like deer hide now enfolding
barbed wire. Resilience—

Kim Haines-Eitzen

Kim Haines-Eitzen is a professor at Cornell University. As a poet, she draws from her childhood in the Middle East and her current life in the lush Finger Lakes region of central New York and the high deserts of Arizona. Her poetry has been published in Cathexis Northwest Press and her photography has been exhibited at State of the Art Gallery in Ithaca, New York.

“Etchings,” “True and False, East to West” and “The Blue Hour”

The one-seed juniper defiant
in a sand-drenched wash
grasps against wind and rain.
Earth engraved by crawling roots
broad sap-scented trunk tanned soft
like deer hide now enfolding
barbed wire. Resilience—

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