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Jeffrey Skinner

Poetry

Spring 2010

Ode to a Photographer

By Jeffrey Skinner

Pictures of developments half-built, white PVC pipes Jutting like bones from denuded ground, workers Feeding branches to a chipper, halogen-lit mounds Of sand at night, men smoking in front of […]

Poetry

Summer 2000

Prodigal

By Jeffrey Skinner

There’s no use, I guess, lamenting our interest in Things Lost, Things We Have Not, But Want. Shadows and erasures are interesting for what they might contain: some range of […]