Arden Tice

A radical poet, Tice’s work as teacher, social worker, psychologist, has spanned 45 years and ranged from two years at Point Barrow, Alaska to traveling and writing about the Indians of Mexico. Her published work includes five chapbooks of poetry, one book of essays and most recently, In Time to Tango (about PTSD).

  on the path at tent rocks

this day of my birth

I cultivate the light

celebrate my life

what does it mean

bemused I cannot say

all my dreams

of trauma of drama

give stories to each

now beneath the stirring trees

I feel the cooling breeze

a fluttering of wings

beneath the limestone cones

* * *

spring brings the smell

of russian olive trees

heady a little at a time

strong the wind begins

I breathe deeply

as you go

not asking why

I know