This month during the Slice of Life Challenge at http://www.twowritingteachers.org, I’m celebrating a different living poet each day and using their work to create a cento poem. David Gate is a poet who lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Asheville, North Carolina and writes predominantly on themes of nature and the environment. You can read more about David Gate here and here.
When the Baby Goats are Dying
People say “money doesn’t make you happy”
when the baby goats are dying.
It tells you nothing.
They say to “stay strong.”
I always do.
Lines for this Cento were taken from: The Problem of Happiness; I Still Get to Be Yours; Curse these Minutes; Stay Strong; Winter’s Insistence
Common Threads 
I enjoy reading your poems and you have me interested in lots of the poets formerly unknown to me.
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Thank you, Erika. Many of these are new to me, too. I had never heard of this poet until I saw he had a book of poems and essays that looked interesting, and turns out he lives in one of my favorite cities in the south. I love discovering writers I’ve never read, and I can tell from your blog that you do, too. Long live reading!
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Life is busy right now so I am making a date with myself the last week in June to really study your poets. I can’t wait!
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