Blackbird and Wolf: Poems is the sixth book of Henri Cole poems. Cole's observations, feelings and perceptions of life, nature, animals, and self-identity reflect his personal journey through life and situations.

"Crossing my ankles, I watch the day vibrate around me, watch the geraniums climb toward the distant mountains where I was born, watch the black worm wiggling out of the window box, hiding its head from the pale sun that lies down on everything purifying it. Lord teach me to live. Teach me to love. Lie down on me.”

"My father lived in a dirty-dish mausoleum, watching a portable black-and-white television reading the Encyclopedia Britannica, which he preferred to Modern Fiction."

"On the path to the water, I found an ugly weed growing between rocks. The wind was stroking it, "My weed, my weed."

Henri Cole resides in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the author of Middle Earth (FSG, 2003), a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and The Visible Man (FSG, 1998). He is also the recipient of the Berlin Prize (1999) and Rome Prize in Literature (1995).