Voices in American Poetry
Summer 1984
“All at Once His Leprosy Passed”
Luke: 5 I go in satin, contagion touched away, My sores, the stink, long gone, my beggar’s cup, That target for spit, revered, made holy they say Who’d have it […]
Poetry
Summer 1980
Miler
for Steve Prefottaine, American distance runner and Olympic hopeful, killed in a car crash, 1975 Drumming up birds, the rising Swivel of bears, sudden Bumping of rabbits, his gait Went […]
Poetry
Summer 1980
Bjorn
He’s brutal, smacks of the Norseman, named for a bear. His smile’s in hibernation; rumor of fangs. This day of the blow drier and sculpted hair- Cut, his strands are […]
Poetry
Summer 1980
Steeler
. . . The shadow of a dream is man. no more. But when the brightness comes, and God gives it there is a shining of light on men . […]
Poetry
Summer 1980
Bench Presser
His junk ascends, sticks . . . at addict’s nod. He’s hooked to resisting inches, needs eleven To fade past failure; shivers through seven With loaded palms, his heart at […]