Cynthia Hardy

Beneath a Portrait of a Horse Cynthia Hardy

The poems in this book are not all about horses. They are poems of longing, disappointment, and discovery, of the natural world bumping up against the man-made world, of the small places where we can find respite - the crack in a sidewalk, a conversation on a ferry, the taste of ginger or coffee. Written over a span of years and in various locations, they reflect the poet's impulse to find beauty in the mundane, and in the remote.