The embroidered earth: sapphics in the spring

A week or so ago, subscribers to the substack account of the literary journal Nimrod (excitingly now edited by the excellent poet and translator Boris Dralyuk) received a poem from the new issue, ‘Poikilos’ by Tyson Hausdoerffer:

April’s warmth arrives. In the sun, the snowpack
melts. The tamped-down grass of the field beneath pokes
through enough for falc…