David Roderick Biography David Roderick is a Wallace Stegner Writing Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. His poems and fiction have appeared recently in Hudson Review, Massachusetts Review, New England Review, Ontario Review, and Triquarterly. See Work POETRY / Spring 2004 Plot By David Roderick The stones are grown over with moss, canker-eaten, illegible even to the sun POETRY / Spring 2004 Thanksgiving By David Roderick For the heron that rousts the swamp, thank you. And for spiders shocked into gradual sleep.