Poetry
Jan/Feb 2017
Cruelties
A young man behind the garage spraying a wasps’ nest until the wasps grow heavy and dumbdripping from the gutter and still he sprays until their curled black bodies decorate […]
Poetry
Jan/Feb 2017
Technology
Like old technology, the horses galloped across the field. What good were they to us, in the sun-speckled weather, far from any power source? The wireless net expanded over the […]
Poetry
Jan/Feb 2017
The Vast Economies
What is the point of money? said the leopards at work on the still quivering gazelle. The gazelle looked at the sky, as if contemplating the afterlife. Then it closed […]
The Longer Lyric
Nov/Dec 2016
Fireworks
He believed that great literature was elastic, and by this he meant that it shaped itself to the concerns of each new generation of readers. Homer, he was fond of […]
Poetry
Winter 2014
Ars Poetica
I slept in a far-away tent, I slept in a hollow log, then I slept in a crate abandoned in the snow, I built my shelter from garbage and branches, […]
Poetry
Winter 2014
Pacification
Let the meeting of the Committee begin. Outside, heavy-headed asters nod on delicate stems, so who will call this meeting to order, who is present, are we all present? Outside, […]
Poetry
Winter 2014
Not Near Enough
Nine-fingered Lord, collateral Lord, Lord of airplanes that rise from the base, strategic Lord, angry and strange, Lord of the surgical strike, incursion Lord, armed and wild, Lord over whom […]
Poetry
Spring 2012
Elegy and Comfort
In those days, you could leave your child at the city's edge for the wolves. You could wrap your child in leaves or in rags; you could put it in […]
Poetry
Spring 2010
Distant Strangers
We received numerous conflicting reports. The dead numbered many hundreds, thousands, littered the beach, spilled onto the roadway. There were not so many as, at first, we were led to […]
Poetry
Spring 2010
Love Poem
After Laura Jensen I’ll make you a bomb. First the booster gas canister, then the heat shield, then the radium case which, yes, is shaped like a peanut. I’ll make […]
Poetry
Spring 2003
Questions for the Drowned at Sea
Are you loose and vague as a sea grown still after rain? Or cool as salt water when the season’s fall, when the sun is low and the air is […]
Kevin Prufer
Kevin Prufer’s newest books are In a Beautiful Country (Four Way Books, 2011) and National Anthem (Four Way Books, 2008). With D. A. Powell, he recently edited Dunstan Thompson: On […]