Poetry
Summer 1990
Repairs
Words slipping in Christmas whiskey like gears stripped, the old corporal gives us Guadalcanal and my father, a boy, taking down an M1921 water-cooled machine gun by starlight, no moon, […]
Poetry
Summer 1990
Learner’s Permit on Skyline Drive
We sit in back where we can't be caught in the nervous eyecorner. Four hands in her lap, one knotty ball. My fingers have been numb for miles. This is […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1990
When Failure Is Not the True Test
The Creole Mephistopheles by Laurence Lieberman. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1988. 135 pages. $19.95. The Southern Reaches by Sherod Santos. Middletown, Ct.: Wesleyan University Press, 1989. 69 pages. $18.50. […]
Poetry
Spring 1988
Oxford, 1975
If we had not gone there, away from our real lives, gone to drift along the Cherwell in a haze of good sherry, recline on elbows by the Isis like […]
Poetry
Spring 1988
Morning: Two Dogs on a Winter Field
Soundless, breaths floating together before the sun, black labs tumbled slowly in their own corona, beyond male and female, wheeling over the frozen earth, dark bodies burning.