Elizabeth Spires’s books include The Wave Maker, Now the Green Blade Rises, and Worldling. She lives in Baltimore and teaches at Goucher College. In 2011–12 she was a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library.
Poetry
July/Aug 2015
Mountains of the Heart
An artist’s book drawn by Kameda Bōsai in 1816 If I were to pray a prayer, would the prayer unfold like a scrolling landscape of mountains, rivers, valleys, where here, […]
Poetry
Summer 2004
Tea
The road is dust, and the town is dust, and even my mother is dust. But here, set back among the pines, a teahouse long and low where we sit […]
Poetry
Summer/ Autumn 1997
I Dreamed a Dream
On a dark summer night, I dreamed a dream: I dreamed a moon, and the moon appeared, lighting a house, a pond, a field. And in the field, a white […]
Poetry
Summer/ Autumn 1997
Two Chairs on a Hillside
"Look up. And tell me what you see." "I see two chairs on a hillside. What are they doing there?" "Through good days and bad, two sat there having a […]
Poetry
Summer 1990
The Nap
Tragic and intimate, these lit moments passing as we pass … I wake in late afternoon, your face floating above me, huge, planetary, gazing deeply into my own unguarded eyes. […]
Elizabeth Spires
Elizabeth Spires’s books include The Wave Maker, Now the Green Blade Rises, and Worldling. She lives in Baltimore and teaches at Goucher College. In 2011–12 she was a Cullman Fellow […]