Poetry
Instructions for Peer Evaluation, with Examples
Slide 1: You must give a spread of grades. / / Slide 2: You must explain on the reverse the salient attributes / of your group members, as follows: / ...
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To the Woman I Left at the World’s Fair, 1974.
There you were, an Eastman Kodak girl in a yellow dress, / Orange-lipped and garrulous, offering to take my picture. / / What was the line I used to scoop you...
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How the Starling Came to America: a glosa for P.K. Page
It was that teen who made our sky inscribable. / Juliet. I would I were thy bird, she said. The tickle / of her eyelashes made everything salient. Her lover, / needing...
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Flammable Rabbits of Stockholm
What this party needs is the twentieth century: / remember me? This is not a story. A Reuters scoop and grim / / retorts, anti-polymer, pro-bunny. Pro-messy / medieval oil paintings,...
Dirty Snow
A spray of reddish dust: desiccated earth, / Shreds of maple, hardened blood. / Black particulate: charcoal, / Ash sifted across meadow, stream bank, road. / / Tiny paper flakes: cream,...
Cave Art
Early March sun hot on the coffee table and my stocking feet, I’m / looking at photos of iron oxide and charcoal paintings someone made / in near darkness on the walls...
Yellowknife
My father underlines the words / he doesn’t understand. Dear father, / penultimate means next to last. Husband, as a verb, / / is not unusual. To husband is to conserve....
Vulpes
I was a fox before you knew me. / Felt things better with paws / that gave in to each crevice of pine needle, / killed prey quick with playful leaps /...
Son, on the non-existence of the Triceratops
No trilobites, no ammonites, no longer / will I pray to a brontosaurus instead / of the Christian god. I will not admit / it was because he was taller. No titanosaurus,...