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The Legal Studies Forum
Volume 30, Number 1/2 (2006) reprinted by permission Legal Studies Forum Lawyers & Poets Journeys Close to Home FRIEDRICK HAINES _____________________________ New Year Pale sunlight lingers lately in the afternoon. Season’s turning posed Upon a fencepost like a June butterfly folding closed, now open. Slow, prodigal of time, umbrageous oaks, with shadows somewhat shortened Since the day before, shrug their snowy load to the forest floor, unbend And shake their limbs as if to make their blood begin to flow. Put to flight, Murdering crows turn to squawk a raucous caution of returning night, Or maybe they celebrate in croaking chorus to the reborn sun, And then again settle down to preen themselves of bits of carrion. [253]
Friedrick Haines was born in Denver, Colorado in 1952. He was educated at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota and at the University of Colorado-Boulder, and received his J.D. degree from the University of Denver in 1983. Until 1999, Haines devoted his practice to commercial litigation and commercial bankruptcy. He now works for the Colorado Department of Law as First Assistant Attorney General in the Litigation Section. |
