Poetry
Jan/Feb 2015
After
Beat, heart … The earth has not swallowed everything. —Machado i The first of the month the cactus gets watered. The jade tree every other week. The tubs Of dumb […]
Poetry
Summer 2000
Pictures at an Exhibition: Pittsburgh Revealed/Photographs since 1850
1. River View with BargesHew Charles Torrance, 1924 Not quite fin de siècle, this twilight, The city lost in haze behind the massed flats, The river a molten mirror on […]
Poetry
Summer 2000
Pittsburghesque, CA. 1949
Photograph by Selden I. Davis A train from out of a dream, plumed and monumental, The engines’ soundless pulsing like a pressure In your bones. Metal in a soot of […]
Poetry
Winter 1998
Raising the Blinds
1 All day, by the window, I’ve been looking To fathom such intricacies as these: Hail, sleet, freezing rain, the heavy Welter of flakes, and the way each Complements the […]
Poetry
Summer 1993
Gnats
All summer we had them Boiling over in their clouds, That brief, dark dance Of particles, mists of flesh Which hovered About our heads. We had them in our ears […]
Poetry
Summer 1993
Mushrooms
1 After rain, after weather, They emerge: flesh-colored And naked as throats, Milky as the caps they’re Named for. They loll, Slouch-brimmed and sprawling Upon their stalks, Pale slips swelling […]
Poetry
Summer 1993
Moths
I like the leaf ones best, For whom the ends of transformation Are resemblance To another life entirely— The wings almost deciduous, Antennae fusty as fronds. As the one I […]