Poetry
Summer 1990
The Spell of the Leaves
Her husband left her suddenly. Then it was autumn, And in those first, crisp days of a new life, Each morning she would watch her son, a boy of seven, […]
Poetry
Summer 1990
Kind of Blue
And so what? said a trumpet; & I'll see you that & raise you five, said a kind Of rippling laughter, gone now, on the keyboard; & Well just this […]
Poetry
Summer 1990
“Coney Island Baby”
But there is a place that will not change, a place that is rooted in dream: It rots & rejoices; it flowers from nothing; it turns a deaf ear to […]
Fiction
Summer 1990
Roulette
1 After the coup, even the pettiest of newly appointed public officials was able to furnish his office with a choice of heirlooms, all confiscated from country estates. Cloisonné vases […]