Little man, I said, keep the wolf
from my door: one more night,one more wretched night and day.
The wolf said wait and the seasonwas packing its bags, but it would
not leave and it would never leave.
Joseph Campana is a poet, critic and scholar of Renaissance literature. He is the author of two collections of poetry, “The Book of Faces” (Graywolf, 2005) and “Natural Selections,” which won the 2011 Iowa Poetry Prize. (via newshour)