For I Will Consider My Friend Susan
For she is the servant of the Living God,
and worships in her way.
When the Canon Takes Aim: A Review of Jordan Abel’s...
Injun, by Jordan Abel. Talonbooks, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. $16.95 (Canada/U.S.)
The atrocities inflicted on the indigenous peoples of the Americas through the centuries are well-documented...
Trading the Mountaintop for the TV Room: An Interview with...
Introduction
The other day, my son and I were sitting on the couch in my sunroom, watching the traffic outside, when a hearse, leading a...
poem) (from next season:
Palimpsest: a manuscript rubbed smooth so it can be used again, with traces of the original showing through.
Dina Hardy created the poem below by...
Coupling
Somewhere between a spring-like winter
and a winter-like spring,
I lost you, lost you even as you strolled
beside me. Over clams and calamari
at The Little Owl,...
Poem Beginning in the Body and Ending in a Landscape
Partly wreckage
See
Left leg
Not going as the leg once went
Not light
The way the light once went
Before the light went dim
And a field grew out of...
Narcissus
My father moved out of her house without warning
as daffodil stems were throwing off bells, as the bells
of the church down the street kept...
Siluetas/Silhouettes
after Ana Mendieta
i.
I’ll return in blood-paint.
Santa Muerte, goddess of death,
my body imprinted
on a sheet
in a fissured portal,
Candlewood branches
arcing at my feet.
ii.
My art, my sex
enraged...
Kim Stafford: Two Poems on Trump’s Inauguration
Inauguration Day, 2017
The new patriot is a listener.
The new citizen talks to strangers.
The new continental congress convenes
at bus stops, taverns and cafes, parking lots
where...
SALIVA TERRACADE
Your tongue is lightweight
Like ceramic tiles
While you lick
Your lover in order to
Build a saliva-based
Terracade
You may be Shane
Henrik, Australian,
Architect, building
Your cubistic blocks
But Picasso beats
You to...
G. Industries Airblown Inflatable Hunting Snowman
How comforting to be attached
To a little pump humming up the bill.
Low-voltage, guy-wired,
Standing with a long gun.
Bloused in camo, staked, tethered,
Blown into the visible—
Awake but not alone.
How comforting...
HOW TO COME BACK TO EARTH
On the 30th anniversary of the Challenger explosion, NPR interviews one of the scientists who failed to persuade NASA officials that launching the space...