Poetry
Summer 2001
Scotch Argus on Jerusalem Sage
He hutches down where grass begins to pipe into the stem, wings locked on the plant, the rest of him trying to open. As termovisual a target as all three […]
Poetry
Summer 2001
Mourning Engagement Ring
Airbrush out his cigarette like an old black pot put upside down in a field— he was barley, the heaviest grain that grows, a bead on the larger world […]
Nonfiction
Summer 2001
Under the North Window: An Interview with Medbh McGuckian
Medbh McGuckian was born in Belfast in 1950, where she now lives for most of the year with her husband and their four teenagers. Her poems have won the English […]
Poetry
Summer 2001
Ramoan Parish Bulletin
On the yachted sea, your boats burned so beautifully, the last summer, as many of us then thought. I unheard like a voice on wheels your undersea eyes, your […]
Poetry
Summer 2001
The Flower of Tullahogue
A blend of new forest with a pure stand of high forest, the year agreed into the evening's understory of holly, from the cratered ground renamed for the month in […]