Nonfiction
Spring 2013
The Miracle of My Freedom
The oil lamp glows softly in the cabin, like a star both distant and close. It gives each thing its true value. And it is far more than the miracle […]
Fiction
Winter 2007
In the Forest
In the forest, Orlando and Adam are starving, particularly Adam. “I don’t care,” says Adam, Orlando’s aged servant. “I’ll just die.” Orlando doesn’t agree with this. Adam has taken care […]
Fiction
Spring 1998
The Gross Clinic
APRIL 15. “Do you like that one?” I asked Nick yesterday. It was Thomas Eakins’s painting of Max Schmitt in a Single Scull. Nick considered it. “No,” he said. “It’s […]
Poetry
Spring 1996
Vacation
1. The Haiku North shore of the island reading Bashō eating poison hamburger. The Commentary The speaker sits under a roof that ripples like the wind—or like the […]
Poetry
Winter 1996
London
I can't tell you how flat I find this place. I don't get it. We went to Dickens's house, but all it had to say to me was what a […]
Poetry
Winter 1996
Issues of Identity
1. Newspaper I just can't help but think that if amniocentesis had been available in the 1950s I probably would have been abortedsaid a Marsha Saxton. It's the second […]
Poetry
Autumn 1992
Homage to Frank O’Hara
I wake up too early, read for a while. Thich Nhat Hanh says not to mind having one’s spiritual quest interrupted by one’s life but just to be mindful and […]
Fiction
Autumn 1990
Pacific Wish
Monica returned from a visit to her parents in Arizona with a lot on her mind. It seemed to Hilary he had heard it all before. “Look,” he told her. […]