Nature’s Nature
May/June 2019
Passion Fruit
Passiflora edulis, var. flavicarpa As many times as I’ve drunk the pulp-flecked, almost clear juice or imagined the sweet ichor of its essence distilled onto an elegant schnapps sipped onstage […]
Poetry
Nov/Dec 2018
The Bathers, Cassis
It’s too hot to think much about the ochre cliffs of Cap Canaille or the moan of a tour boat’s engines grinding through the aquamarine of the Mediterranean. I’m inside […]
Poetry
Nov/Dec 2018
Blues with a Feeling, Cassis
It’s a hazy day and an onshore wind blows in from off the Mediterranean in Aeolian puffs that billow the straw-colored drapes I’ve drawn aside for this Dufy-like view of […]
Poetry
Nov/Dec 2018
Her Makeup Face
L. T. H., I. M. There were years at her bedroom vanity, daubing on makeup, fussing with clips and brushes, a clamp for eyelashes, the phalanx of powder jars […]
Poetry
Autumn 2006
Kubota to the Chinese Poets Detained on Angel Island
My geography does not match yours, surrounded by the bayAnd the city so close by you can see it from the hill of Island.I am at the middle of an […]
Poetry
Autumn 2006
Kubota on Kahuku Point to Maximus in Gloucester
Wind ruffling my shirt and pants, a gleam across the water,Surf sounds in my ears, I roll the cuffs up my trousers,Wade out in rubber-stockinged feet over the crags of […]
Poetry
Autumn 2006
Kubota to Nazim Hikmet in Peredelkino, Moscow, from Leupp, Arizona
I learned a sheepherder’s stew last week, Nazim.Navajos taught me to make it from scrapsOf lamb from the mess, onions from the army’s bags,And pine nuts I picked from the […]