Recently added articles from Antigonish Review:
The Hydrography of Memory
Jan 01, 2009; ... You memorize the scar beneath my left collarbone while we wait for the rain to end. Your fingers read its ridges like a sentence in Braille where your thumbprint begins to delineate interior chambers that echo a pattering resonance of voices reciting childhood ...
The Keening of Icebergs
Jan 01, 2009; ... Geophysicists say it's like something from a horror film - each iceberg weeps its own lament when crevasses inside flow with water and set its walls vibrating. But what is meant by these keenings? This is the sound of ice sundered - like oak ...
The Pulse of Trees
Jan 01, 2009; ... Bare branches stretched like veins across the blue wrist of the sky. Trees as evidence that the earth has a heart. Wooden arteries breaking through the ground remind us of the presence of a burning core that keeps us alive, moving through the mist of ...
The Archeology of Air
Jan 01, 2009; ... Air as artifact that could reveal history's layers of connection how it's filtered through the interior matrices of leaves. How it's cupped in creased hands in foreign countries, carried to the mouth and molded to reprieves or words of blessing. Exhaled over two ...
Walking
Jan 01, 2009; ... In the morning, I walk with my mother, my left hand in her right, past vases of silk flowers, framed prints of Renoir girls, Oprah on TV holding court. My mother won't look at me or speak. Her face is as clenched as her fists pounding the ...