Dana Yost

Twenty to Thirty Years
Twenty to thirty years—
was it really that long?
Not really, she thought, at last.
Surely, if she had lasted forty-five years,
she could last another twenty to thirty and, convinced now of this fact,
she slipped the rope off from her throat.

Dana Yost, Twenty to Thirty Years
From the Depths 2021

Where the Music Died —Reader's Choice Award, District Lit, 2013
Before I Get Old —South Dakota State Poetry Society's chapbook of the year, 2020