Recently added articles from Ploughshares:
Introduction.
Dec 22, 2008; ... "Here's why I write. Because Poetry begins there where death had not the final word." --Odysseus Elytis I sent out a call to some poets: friends, acquaintances, and some only known to me by their poems. Inevitably I forgot some, and also I am ignorant of many; ...
I Would Live a Day with You.(Poem)
Dec 22, 2008; ... <Pre> I Would Live a Day with You Walk with meon the carriage pathwhere we have walked through the parkto the cliff where the hawks driftin spiral streams, in clear currents.Sit with me. Read to me.Start at the beginning.Read steadily, we can ...
Two Cranes.(Poem)
Dec 22, 2008; ... <Pre> Two Cranes Not really knowing the difference between herons and cranes,that summer we named the two birds that came to Boehmke's Cove(which were almost surely not cranes but heronsbecause of the way they flew with their heads drawn inclose to their bodies, ...
New Year's Underground.(Poem)
Dec 22, 2008; ... <Pre> New Year's Underground This subway mapreminds meof the colored stripeson hospital floorsthat guide usto recoveryor dead ends(I lift my glassto the Amber line),or the spacious roomthat overlooksa beautiful parking lot ...
To One Who Owed Me Money.(Poem)
Dec 22, 2008; ... <Pre> To One Who Owed Me Money To finally locate youafter all these yearsand then--it's in a dream!:you're near the endin a hospitalin a small New England city,what monstrous snakeof a road led you here,where you sit on the bed...