Poetry
Autumn 1987
Esther Describes How She Was Chosen Queen
Esther describes the climate after Vashti’s dethronement, from her own confinement, as one of the Virgins being purified for the King, Ahasuerus, in order that he may choose a new […]
Poetry
Autumn 1987
Esther Cannot Control Haman and Ahasuerus
Shortly after Esther becomes Queen, Ahasuerus approves a decree put forth by Haman to kill all the Jews. Unsure if anyone realizes she is a Jew, she sets out to […]
Poetry
Spring 1986
Ecology
In a land where birds are born without tongues,children know them by the slight flaggingof their wings against buildingswhich they distinguishfrom wind through leavesat a very early age.The conditions of […]
Poetry
Spring 1986
Driving the Sunlight
We laugh at the man on Sunday morningdriving the sunlight with his wipers going,but maybe he’s trying to clear the brightness. For beneath the hard living, the mouth can fail,the […]