Poetry
Summer 1993
Easy Living
for Dorothy West From the shiny iron stove, where your mother cooked, you move to your small writing table past the foot-high, yellow dictionary. You remember the days your mother […]
Poetry
Summer 1993
Science
One day you’ll be a credit to your race. MRS. MOODY From behind your tableau, bunsen burners, beakers, test tubes, with the periodic table for mise-en-scène, you measured my light’s […]
Poetry
Autumn 1991
Pearl Bailey: An Elegy
Last night the corner of my new shoeshit the corn I have had since birth,and I let out a silent scream amidall the polite faces pretending that their feet never […]
Poetry
Autumn 1991
The Spanish Lesson
for Jay Wright It is late, and I hurryup to Seventeenth Street from the PATH stationfacing a roasted nut stand. Police on the corners smile in pressed uniforms, patrolling wooden […]