Poetry
Jan/Feb 2022
A Phrasal Verb Primer
you and I did not use up (what we had) I looked after (you) (myself) you went through (who can know) after you ran out (of time) I turned down […]
Poetry
Winter 2011
Milk River
Jamaica, 1775 he'd stolen some cakes what can be expected of thee when the beings on whom thou depend for reason and support have all interest in deceiving thee! been […]
Poetry
Winter 2011
Notes on Milk River
We imagine painted cottages open to the breeze, under these trees dripping with mangoes, on soil so rich every seed can grow. In a sensible country, this mineral spring— fifty […]
Poetry
Summer 2000
Reading Henry Fowler’s “Modern English Usage” in Salt Lake City in November
You note the one “r” in iridescent, from the Greek, iris, rainbow, not the Latin,irrideo, to laugh, and I smile to think of your idiosyncrasy, scrupulous care in life as […]
Poetry
Summer 2000
Bend
and make the horizon disappear. Desire’s a hardy trifoliate orange with thorns: viscous bitter fluid, flesh crammed full of seeds. Heavenly florid citrus scent. We plant marigolds in neat rows […]