Poetry
Sept/Oct 2016
Geophysics
Geophysics maps our singular globe—molten lava here, falling water there, rocks, moraines, and minerals everywhere. I thought I’d be a lunarologist—a word I’d coined myself—transporting my “skills” to the bleakly […]
Poetry
Sept/Oct 2016
Radiation
“Zone of alienation,” they designate the area around Chernobyl, where after thirty years, some life’s come back to life: a kind of tree, a kind of bird, but resurrection is […]
Fiction
Spring 2011
Mother’s Day
Carolina Severn, arts administrator, wife to a successful physician and the mother of two grown children, fixture in the city’s cultural life, giver of sparkling dinner parties, left her office […]
Poetry
Winter 1999
The Model Looks at Her Portrait: A Retrospective
Scarlet Woman by Betty Watson Outside the painting, staring at herselfin the painting where she is in this room she’s in while staring guardedly at a painting like murder, or […]
Poetry
Winter 1999
Learning to Live with Stone
A shore of washed stones A sky the color of stone A stone cliff Stony face, stony heartThere is nothing here, Twisted roots, sea taking the land Back. Sea wrack […]
Poetry
Winter 1999
Rising Venus
They have it wrong: I am not young, was born old enough to ride the rough waves of the sea without drowning, and immodestly. Semen and seaweed clung to my […]
Poetry
Summer 1998
Three Poems from Antigone: Praise and Plea
CHORUS: God, whose name is various and many according to the manifold modes of your being, son of the Almighty and Semele— Lord of the Mysteries of Eleusis, where the […]
Poetry
Summer 1998
Three Poems from Antigone: Sons and Fathers
From the Greek. HAIMON: You are my father. A son cannot hate his father. I trust your judgment in all things, and I would never marry a woman of whom […]
Poetry
Summer 1998
Three Poems from Antigone: The Failed Sacrifice
From the Greek. TEIRESIAS: . . . I was in the place of augury, where all the birds of heaven find sanctuary, when their beautiful songs were broken by a scream, […]