Poetry
Summer 1995
Fantastic Pelicans Arrive
Gray wind across the lake’s back comes raking, tiny sails of white foam, crest after crest, sun beating like neon against cold’s slash, solitary loon floating in the cove. Today […]
Poetry
Summer 1995
Descending
Remember that tinfoil day at the beach descending on water the color of slate, the man descending, just a bald head like an emptied melon descending god knows where, same […]
Poetry
Summer 1995
Quail
for Charles Wright Recalling old hunts, we rake ourselves with hooks of briars along the bottom where a dog’s stiff. Field seeds fleck our cracking lips like blood, mouths moving […]
Poetry
Summer 1995
Arising
Did he peek like a child where nippled sunlight poured, did he call from cradling dark a woman to come, did he brush off gravel, aware of himself, did he […]
Poetry
Summer 1995
Nine Ball
My anger’s long, and the room of broken chairs in rows,spittoons with death’s brown beauty breeding its glue atop the stairs that clattered and turned you in where they waited, […]
Poetry
Summer 1995
Field Dressing
No one ever forgets that ripe maggot smell of entrails laid on your fingers, the blood-steam rising to cling like weightless, sleet-bright seeds. But here earth hides its usual electric, […]
Poetry
Summer 1989
The Canoe in the Basement
Wanting to live in the world as it is, I have tried to find your way. Concrete walls, mossed a little, cool, the room you dug below the floors holds […]
Poetry
Summer 1989
Before Ground Roses
Idling at the new suburb’s intersection, he sees the red and white necklace of broken glass, startling as the uncontrollable skidding track of a life that abruptly ends where the […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1988
Formal Allegiances: Selected Poems x 6
Rock and Hawk by Robinson Jeffers. Edited by Robert Hass. New York: Random House, 1987. 288 pages. $19.95. A Robert Penn Warren Reader by Robert Penn Warren. New York: Random […]
Poetry
Winter 1985
Pillage
The sun has done its eternal damage, pine warped to the white, arthritic shins of men who once shouldered the hung come-alongs and galled harness, who led out the heavy […]
Poetry
Winter 1985
Summer House
A rusted can opener, mouse droppings in the drawer, one closet containing a sweater, both elbows unraveling with colorless threads like divorce you heard about just before closing the other […]
Poetry
Winter 1985
Pregnant
Think of the verbs by which they go: waddle, lumber, loll, shudder, slide, shuffle, wander—as if theirs is the aimless pulsing of summer-shallowed streams through the mountain’s sunless crowd of […]
Poetry
Winter 1985
Ancestral Farmhouse
White, slope-shouldered, falling away in shade as the land falls, windows half-shuttered, odd glassy eyes in the cool morning of fogs. The seam where each addition came is clear, […]
Poetry
Winter 1985
Field Music
At duskfall haze layers each breast and hump of hill gray as the dead’s combed hair, and I walk, face thick with my day’s work ended by the tavern’s hour […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1984
Myths of Love: New American Fiction
Departing as Air by Allen Wier. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983. 203 pages. $14.95. The Summoning by Robert Towers. New York: Harper & Row, 1983. 336 pages. $15.95. Oral […]