J. Allyn Rosser’s most recent book of poems is Foiled Again. She teaches at Ohio University, where she edits New Ohio Review.
Poetry
Spring 2012
Quake
Chance had brought the six of us close for a few weeks, close enough for liking, unstrangered, and would scatter us the next day across the wintering continent, zipping up […]
Poetry
Spring 2012
Rodin: “Crouching Woman”
Not quite cupping, not quite tearing her breast; not exhaustion, not grief, nor anything so simple as despair. Her contortions radiate a voluptuary pleasure in aloneness, even or especially with […]
Poetry
Spring 2012
Housing the Id
Think of it how your mind’s both the igloo and the greedy realtor of the soul the whole point might be selling itself and the mansion breaks down a single dream into many all yours like ice blocks on fire divisions uninhabitable
Poetry
Spring 2008
How like the Heart the Thumb
hangs back or hooks on, expecting quick results and, when it can, exults alone by lifting. No one pays them heed till there’s a pressing need. Both bleed. One builds […]
Poetry
Spring 2006
Equilibrium Update
Look there, a man caught smack in the middle of his lifeand almost aware of it; not quite yet resigned but past most of the old impatiences, havingdeveloped a consciously casual […]