European Voices
Summer 1995
Abba Jacob in the Well
Bakar, Atul, and Clancy lower a bucket and raise it slowed by stones. Once in a while Clancy turns on the pump to see whether water is running now, or […]
European Voices
Summer 1995
Post-Prandial Conversation
Abba Jacob said: I’m sorry; I forgot. I’m always forgetting things. The Wednesday morning mass, for instance. It’s an early mass, right after my morning prayer, and sometimes I forget […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1991
A Multitude of Dreams
The Eating Hill. By Karen Mitchell. Portland, Ore.: Eighth Mountain Press, 1989. 88 pp. $8.95. The Venus Hottentot. By Elizabeth Alexander. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1990. 52 […]
Poetry
Summer 1991
Psalm
So many cars have driven past me without a head-on collision. I started counting them today: there were a hundred and nine on the way to the grocery, a hundred […]
Poetry
Summer 1991
Matins (2:30 A.M.)
One-third of the worldis dreaming right now of food. Another third stares into empty handmade bowls. And I can’t sleepfor indigestion. Is this pain heartburn, or the mysterious reasonfor my […]
Poetry
Summer 1991
Vespers
I notice it’s evening,and it’s suddenly night.I’ve missed the transition,preoccupied with some important mundane task or another. And suddenly it’s night. The swamp-peepers, stars one by one reappearing. It happens […]
Poetry
Summer 1991
Incomplete Renunciation
Please let me have a 10-room house adjacent to campus; 6 bedrooms, 2?/2 baths, formal dining room, frplace, family room, screened porch, 2-car garage. Well maintained. And let it pass […]