Poetry
Nov/Dec 2020
Oracle
It was something about dying she was saying, But her words were lost in the high wind. So We went inside. All my life I’ve tried to resist Ideas of […]
Poetry
Nov/Dec 2020
House
After “Huis,” Hester Knibbe From the side path, what appears to be a house Is only a facade. Beyond its still-standing wall — Slow shadows edge out light. There is a […]
Nature’s Nature 2020
May/June 2020
Monarch
Whether they find the milkweed By sight or smell, they drift by us & care nothing for our witness. Or the ridiculous name, honoring An Orange king. So little time […]
Poetry
Mar/Apr 2015
Mayhem
So here it is at last, the distinguished thing. Henry James My mayhem she wrote. As if she owned it. As if you could own a poem, or trouble. That […]
Poetry
Winter 2009
The Grief Game
Some say that all elegies are mirrors—But I say I’d rather imagine Catullus Ranting in his brim-back 9th-inning cap:That you’re never going to feel better About losing the one person […]
Poetry
Winter 2009
Green River Cemetery
Grace to be born and live as variously as possible.—Frank O’Hara’s epitaph O his epitaph is happy—A small shoal of grace: To beBorn and to live variously— Unlike her tragic […]
Poetry
Winter 2003
Actor
You give me up You go away You walk on a stage and are re-made. I long for you but you have a strophic relationship to longing. You move so […]
Poetry
Winter 2003
Heart
To you, joking, I’d said: You’re an actor. Act like you love me. You laughed and turned away into the characters you played, acting like an actor. We were caught […]
Poetry
Winter 2003
Anniversary
Exhausted by pity, I sit in the sun near the pool. The wind lifts the chimes you repaired so patiently last year, knotting the strings from which the silver cylinders […]
Book Reviews
Summer 2001
Out of the Cradle, Violently Rocking: The New Young Poets
The New Young American Poets. Edited by Kevin Prufer. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000. 264 pp. $16.95 paper, $49.95 cloth. The New American Poet. Edited by Michael Collier. […]