Nonfiction
Summer 1992
“A World That Will Hold All the People”: On Muriel Rukeyser
Our age demands truth and the passion to endure the suffering necessary to learn the truth. KIM CHI HA For my people standing staring trying to fashion a better way […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1992
Two Cities: On the Iliad
And, through the palace, mothers wild with fright Ran to and fro or clung to doors and kissed them. VERGIL, Aeneid (Fitzgerald) Far from fishing, far from the cutting of […]
Poetry
Summer 1991
To the Tribunal
There was a machine that opened the earthThis was in April In Decemberas you know the Americans camein helicopters to the neighborhoods at night They had guns in the doors […]
Poetry
Summer 1991
To Peace
Peace I have feared you hated you scuffed dirton what little of you I could bear near me scorned you called you vicious names Every time you have settled over […]
Poetry
Summer 1991
To Justice
When will you come The days are long the nightsdamp and quick but many I am leavingthe light for you my traveler Where are you lodging tonight What stranger’s forkand […]
Poetry
Summer 1991
To the Strangers
All this time I have never told you except here in this solitary secrecy never told you the wintersI have watched you draw your coat collar close to your neck […]
Fiction
Winter 1995
March 12, 1810: Doe Run
Every morning earlier she walked down the narrow case of stairs, before the robins and the crows, lifted the latch, and stepped out into the yard, budded but unblossomed, lengths […]