Poetry
Summer 2000
Decade-Birthday Verses for James Merrill
March 3, 1976 Jimmy’s fifty! When we met Both of us were nine years brisker. Time’s a thief who loves to get Peach fuzz coarsened up to whisker. Say I’m […]
Science, Science Fiction and Poetry
Autumn 1993
Confessions of a Metamorph
I In Which the Author Recounts the Surprising Circumstances By Which, After Having Started Out As a Poet, She Became a Science-Fiction Writer in Mid-Life I arrived at the University of […]
Poetry
Winter 1992
Ragged Sonnet
JUDITH MOFFETT RAGGED SONNET “…. her credits include an ofibeat comedy-drama, The Baptist Daughter, in which she briefly appeared in the title role, with Angela Small playing ‘Mama’ and Brutus […]
Poetry
Winter 1992
Forsythia
for Ted Last spring the bushes near the street Were rumpled yellow globes of flowers, Their huge dishevelment made neat Between the Purbricks’ drive and ours. Before that, twice as […]
Poetry
Spring 1982
The Missing Link
AUTHOR’S NOTE: The complete “Missing Link” is double the length of these excerpted sections—long enough, I hope, to carry its numerous interrelated subjects and themes: feral children, evolution, gorillas, and […]
Poetry
Autumn 1980
Reaching Around
for Walt Whitman I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough …To pass among them or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so […]
Poetry
Spring 1980
Scatsquall in Spring
What salt sprinkled over half a ripe tomato does to acid and red—what sandpaper rasped over fingertips does to the tumblers— this squall of rain swept like a sprinkling can […]