Poetry
Spring 1994
What It Is like for You
You are writing a letter to someone who doesn’t have a lot of time left. The sun hurts because it is old and bitter (you said to whoever brought the […]
Poetry
Spring 1994
Churches
If it is a matter of looking, I do not know what to look at in this life. There are many churches. Some are like whirling lights that smudge the […]
Poetry
Spring 1994
The Sorrow
for Gregg Russo We can’t live with the dead. We live without them until we are like them. The way we feel the dead is to walk into a space […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1994
Stay Together, Learn the Flowers, Go Light
Counting Myself Lucky: Selected Poems 1965-1992 by Edward Field. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1992. 307 pages. $12.50, paper. No Nature: New and Selected Poems by Gary Snyder. San Francisco: […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1993
Steel around a Bouquet
Mirrors of Astonishment by Rachel Hadas. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 1992. 76 pages. Living in Time by Rachel Hadas. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 1990. 188 pages. $12.95, paper. […]
Poetry
Winter 1992
The Contribution
for Marie Howe The way you’ll say something in a dream to awaken from it, only enlarges the emblem it poured in with. When I said, “Maybe I’ll go back […]
Poetry
Winter 1992
Removes
We are also connected by permission to not know each other as in today, when the lapse in dusk forms a bridge of mind to a stranger who is staring […]
Poetry
Winter 1992
The Bath
Only the sound of you splashing while I shift from foot to foot in the cold kitchen where the windows have frosted so I can’t see out. I pull the […]