Poetry
Summer/ Autumn 1997
October 31
Loose cowl of shoulderless space, empty flaps and neck hooks—places for the crêped and aged skin that isn't there except in dream or dim entryway light, half in half out […]
Poetry
Summer 1989
Swingset
Intruding its blue crossbar and stripedinverted V’s across the wash of summer, across birdbath, feeder, cracked stone bench, the swingset breaks this green plane into foreground and back, a horizon […]
Poetry
Summer 1989
Personal History
Never say what you have, or don’t have, never boast, never ask for help: the instruction in negation was sent out for generations by the Norwegian immigrant farmersin Minnesota and […]
Poetry
Winter 2002
Smoketree
It was exactly as the name implied, a fall and winter ashy skein, a kind of gray diaphane whose nets could bind hoarfrost to light to smoky thaw, until all […]
Poetry
Winter 2002
Depression Vacation
1. Hotel On the famous street where the famous pass by daily, and the workers on their way to work, important keyed IDs on cotton bands around their necks— new […]
Poetry
Summer/ Autumn 1997
Augury
In gray, drizzling, leaf-collecting weather, his sweater, starred with burrs and bits of bark, visibly sags (the oiled weave holding the fog in chains so the wearer is actually wearing […]
Poetry
Summer/ Autumn 1997
On Receiving a Pair of Chinese Therapeutic Balls
Meant to heal, among other things, the deviant spleen, these pharmaceutical substitutes, spheres polished by the palms' heat and ceaseless fretwork the fingers weave, work the web of muscle and […]
Poetry
Summer 1989
Hopkins and Whitman
Hard to imagine two men more unlike, the one a solitary wrestling in his cell with palpable Doubt, the other striding the continent in great unbooted certainty. And yet there […]