Tami Haaland teaches creative writing at Montana State University Billings. She won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize for her first book of poems, "Breath in Every Room" (Story Line Press, 2001). In 2013, she was named Montana's poet laureate.
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Little Girl
She’s with Grandma in front
of Grandma’s house, backed
by a willow tree, gladiola and roses.
Who did she ever want
to please? But Grandma
seems half-pleased and annoyed.
No doubt Mother frowns
behind the lens, wants
to straighten this...