Poetry
Spring 1994
Clementene
(Muriel Rukeyser often used to ask groups, from elementary-school kids to middle-aged graduate students, to write a few lines beginning I could not tell. . . . In our most […]
Poetry
Spring 1994
How Can I Speak for Her?
First there is my little grandfather, I think he is no more than four or five. Anyway it must be after the War, and after his twin brother, his only […]
Poetry
Spring 1994
From the Journal concerning My Father
1 It all started with the maps. Hanging in the living room, the hall, on the way up the stairs, were the old maps of Florida, the flowery land. One […]
Poetry
Winter 1992
Vocation: A Life Suite Based on Four Words from Willa Cather
1. DESIRE . . . too strong to stop, too sweet to lose . . . (The Song of the Lark) 1915 It begins in indolence It begins as a secret […]