Poetry
Summer 2005
I Think about Australia Endlessly
for John Kinsella I think about Australia endlessly. And when I stop thinking about it, I pick up the newspaper and there are stories About the Australian boom economy, or […]
Nonfiction
Winter 1998
The Milosz File
So, I don’t know, maybe it’s childish, a childish attitude. I’ve done extensive reading in philosophy and so on. But the poetry comes only from pain, only from personal experience. […]
Poetry
Summer/ Autumn 1997
Joan and Jean
1 after Lepage’s Joan of Arc (In the year in which it was painted, 1879, Lorraine was lost to Germany. Lepage transposed the Joan who sided with the Dauphin against […]
Poetry
Summer 1992
More Fire
I hate to see people being given a hard time. I must live in the wrong city, for while I wait to pay at the pharmacy I watch a young, […]
Poetry
Summer 1992
Robe
It was the thought of a flu shot brought it on. And now I ransack the drugstore counter with other hunched shoulder blades—for remedies: Robitussin for cough—(expectorant); for cough and […]
Poetry
Summer 1980
Nights of Hoffmann
From the Ukrainian. Over carved rungs—into an abyss, a hole, gloominess, Over carved rungs, over bulky stairs, Over glossy platforms suspended Into the cellar’s belly, the sloppy bar, The […]