Laura Hodes

Laura Hodes graduated with a degree in English literature from Yale and a law degree from the University of Chicago. Her creative nonfiction has been published in Allium, Lilith and ofthebook and her poetry has been published in Mid-Atlantic Review. She also writes for the Forward and other publications on the arts, particularly visual art. She lives with her husband and four children in a suburb outside of Chicago.

“Standing in the Woods, “Daughter and Mother Tree,” and “Greetings Dear Bird”

Look, mom! The little yellow bird is back!
my littlest one cries, she, who is not yet too old for wonder.
The bird yellow like a shadowed daisy,
bigger than a hummingbird but so tiny, delicate…