Poetry
Summer 1991
For the Assassins
(Air-India Flight 182, June 23, 1985) A young helicopter pilot feathers his star of rotors, jumps down and, across the whining air, shouts that there is a mile-long slick due […]
Poetry
Summer/Fall 1999
The Brazen Hand
Late in the day, we realized: not making a decision, we had decided to stay. The ferry had stopped running; the storm rose, and the lights were iffy. The house […]
Poetry
Summer/Fall 1999
The Quincunx
The westering sun now strikes a chain link fence. Its shadows’ net and trembling fiery beads impose their pattern upon my children’s faces, two snapshots tacked up on the corkboard, […]
Poetry
Summer 1991
Stanzas from the Life of George Fox, 1651-57
for Roberta Capers I came once to Lichfield. Rumor preceded me, The priests who said I had been taken up above the cloud,Returned to earth gently, My pockets filled with […]