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Ten Moons
Sep 01, 2008; Dugdale, Sasha ... And then came the ten moons Full in the sun's glare, and the seraphim, And it was light all night in the orchards And on the plains and even in the towns And mankind rejoiced, because it was now the case That the wrecking and equivocating could carry ...
Nether
Sep 01, 2008; Wilson, Leila ... The equilibrium of any particular aspect of nature rests on the equivalence of its opposites. -Piet Mondrian Some land lives so water can comb it into grids. This is why lowlands tilt still toward the sea. This so we call our ...
What Is the Field?
Sep 01, 2008; Wilson, Leila ... The field is filled with what we see without sleep. Never completely closed, it quickly erodes when tilled before rain. If clogged with boulders it won't be razed and once burdened cannot quicken under ...
Clary
Sep 01, 2008; Riley, Atsuro ... Her cart like a dugout canoe. Had been an oak trunk. Cut young. Fire-scoured. What was bark what was heartwood : Pure Char - Hole Adze-hacked and gouged. Ever after (never not) wheeling hollow there behind her. Up the hill toward Bennett Yard; down ...
Rest before you sleep
Sep 01, 2008; Martínez, Dionisio D ... Requiem after Fauré, for my father Rest before you sleep You'll be walking for hours then as usual away from home your shoes in your hand your feet not yet used to the road Perhaps they need to feel the gravel to know where they're headed A woman I ...
Bait Goat
Sep 01, 2008; Ryan, Kay ... There is a distance where magnets pull, we feel, having held them back. Likewise there is a distance where words attract. Set one out like a bait goat and wait and seven others will ...
Crocodile Tears
Sep 01, 2008; Ryan, Kay ... The one sincere crocodile has gone dry eyed for years. Why bother crying crocodile tears. [Author ...
Gas Station Rest Room
Sep 01, 2008; Shapiro, Alan ... The present tense is the body's past tense here; hence the ghost sludge of hands on the now gray strip of towel hanging limp from the jammed dispenser; hence the mirror squinting through grime at grime, and the ...
Dressing Down, 1962
Sep 01, 2008; Wheeler, Lesley ... "Shalom," called the pink-shirted man in the Oceanic Terminal of Heathrow, and I snapped, "I do not want to talk to you." Manic with fear, I extended one pointy-tipped shoe, tapped the message home. My cases bulged with the wrong clothes, every outfit ...
24/7
Sep 01, 2008; Shapiro, Alan ... The one cashier is dozing head nodding, slack mouth open, above the cover girl spread out before her on the counter smiling up with indiscriminate forgiveness and compassion for everyone who isn't her. Only the edge is visible of ...
Iraqi Boy
Sep 01, 2008; Arnold, Elizabeth ... What appear to be peach-white, over-washed pajamas in the washed-out newspaper photo on one side droop like a monk's hood, the upper half of that leg raised with the other, whole one and the hands they're there! and the less ...
Arrival
Sep 01, 2008; Steidlmayer, Heidy ... Midwinter, the crows take their darkness out on day. A thin rain falls and breaks. I wonder at the way the oaks unravel here (and travel word of mouth) another year. Not going, I go ...
Barking
Sep 01, 2008; Harrison, Jim ... The moon comes up. The moon goes down. This is to inform you that I didn't die young. Age swept past me but I caught up. Spring has begun here and each day brings new birds up from Mexico. Yesterday I got a call from the ...
Little Low Heavens
Sep 01, 2008; James, Clive ... Any poem that does not just slide past us like all those thousands of others usually has an ignition point for our attention. To take the most startling possible example, think of "Spring," by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Everyone knows the first line because everyone knows the poem. "Nothing is so ...
The X-Ray
Sep 01, 2008; Steidlmayer, Heidy ... Mornings, the body's old winter monochrome gives its image of extraordinary cold to a million hives I could imagine a lanthorn as it swallows its strange light and gleams from within as if reborn when ...
The Duffel Bag
Sep 01, 2008; Harsent, David ... God's blood beads on the tarmac and something rough is boiling up just this side of the vanishing point, so it's probably tune to get off this stretch of blacktop and into the wayside bar, where every cup runneth over and you breast a thickening fret of stogie ...
What loves, takes away
Sep 01, 2008; Wilner, Eleanor ... If the nose of the pig in the market of Firenze has lost its matte patina, and shines, brassy, even in the half light; if the mosaic saint on the tiles of the Basilica floor is half gone, worn by the gravity of solid soles, the passing of piety; if the ...
Azores
Sep 01, 2008; Tracy, D H ... Four Takes Azores, by David Yezzi. Swallow Press. $24.95 cloth; $12.95 paper. The poems of Azores are in both senses composed, and even at their most lyrical or despairing they are conscientious of having your ear, as though spoken from a podium. They have a preternatural equanimity that ...
Nomina
Sep 01, 2008; Tracy, D H ... Nomina, by Karen Volkman. BOA Editions. $21.00 cloth; $16.00 paper. Nomen: the middle, and so inmost, name, as in Gaius Julius Caesar. Volkman's imperative in these poems is uttering nomina without, if possible, reference to humdrum names; she writes in deprivation of particulars, in an ...
Fragment of the Head of a Queen
Sep 01, 2008; Tracy, D H ... Fragment of the Head of a Queen, by Gate Marvin. Sarabande Books. $13.95. The world of Fragment is in part one of horses and town criers, a fairy tale setting without the fairy tales. The tales that do exist are fairytale grim, mostly about relationship dysfunction, recrimination, and ...