C. Dale Young is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Torn (Four Way Books, 2011). A recent Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry, he is a 2013 Fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation. He lives in San Francisco, California, and practices medicine full-time.
Poetry
Winter 2014
The Sixth Sense
I am reminded the dove is often heard before it is seen, reminded that the rifle is an extension of the man. I am reminded of so much this morning, […]
Poetry
Winter 2014
Wrestling with the Angel
First off, the wings were too perfect. Second, that the angel is both pushing the man with his left hand while embracing him with his right, the angel’s right leg […]
Poetry
Summer 2010
Myth
Someone had placed his hands on me, my limp body a stubborn testament to an accident. But then the toes moved. My toes curled. A dream? No dream. The toes […]
Poetry
Summer 2010
What Doesn’t Kill You
makes you stronger, they say. But stronger than what? Thrice, three times, a trio of cracks—the vertebra with its indiscretions, three breaks in the cement of my neck, one for […]
Poetry
Summer 2008
At Camp Galileo
Newton’s rotten heart has yet to fall from the tree, and the Earth has just begun to orbit the sun, the sun just becoming the center of the universe. The […]
Poetry
Autumn 2006
Reciprocity
It almost never seemed like Paradise,the harbor’s widened grin, the loud diseaseof children’s cries in the surf, and green, yes greenthe water’s slick response to afternoon.Not green, the travel books […]
Poetry
Summer 2002
Infidelity
The sun hovering a mile above the edge of the Pacific, the wind rifling through the sea grass … Early evening of the longest day of your life. Vast is […]