Nature’s Nature
May/June 2019
Wasp
Corseted, dandle-legged, as cold comes on, you, isolato, bumble over this room, ziggurating blind-slats & bookshelves, dive-bombing the lampshade, falling flat, quiet, seeking . . . egress? — what? Having crept up […]
Nature’s Nature
May/June 2019
Indigo Bunting Madrigal
Riddling like lovers the garden’s lower sward, campestral half-acre — alfafa, wheat, weed-tops repentant with seed in heat mercurial — these cambering notes, volant, fleet, strop & weave. Sky in my mouth, watching […]
Poetry
Fall 2009
Kismet
Our limbs in such ligature that, world adjourned, would even God have recognized us as human? A swallowing. Then pearling scree at the sill Of—where?—me or a tree shivering with […]
Poetry
Spring 2006
Hermit Thrush
Still wouldst thou sing… —John Keats Why so sick for a song I’ll never hear:the first note most secret, longest, a low tuck ventriloquialfrom fern-screened divot or tussock of sphagnum bog, then the […]
Poetry
Summer 2002
The Insomnia of Murasaki Shikibu
Dew that hidesIn the plumes of autumn grass,Why do you thusRefuse to leaveThe withered fields? —Murasaki Shikibu, b. circa 978 The sheer divestment of a tonsured moon, a tenth-month sky […]
Poetry
Spring 1998
April
Bridal skirts of weeping cherry, jilted by recent rain, and the chimerical plum along the median strip are washed with pinkish hallucinatory white, and a slick oceanic light suggests everything: […]