Poetry
Dinner Theatre
1. / / I played Chopin on our grand piano, / languid legato, my mother suffering from radiation poisoning / that burned both the noxious malignancy / and her rage. /...
NUNAVUT
CHANGE / I. / We pull the bell, call them in, the ice melts further North. / The arrival of cargo, slow unload from the turboprop: Breakdancing videos / Ipods ...
Writing, after heavy spring rain
These are markers on the dial of the seasons: / Armloads of winter wood & hours / beside the kumquat coals / of the parlour stove; / buckets of ash that leach...
Contest Winner
Station
When the piano arrived, suddenly / what had been simply our front room / became the parlour. The old Hamilton / gave my mother a sense of elegance missing / /...
Saturday
Translated by Kristjanna Grimmelt / / The snow came at night / With its gloves of cold wool / You watched it fall / Over the face of the trees /...
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Painting in the Tropics, 2009
No fish, this time, no fish. / Find a fresh canvas and rack it up. Then paint, you old fool, paint. / / Time edges forward, slow bead on bead. /...
Metamorphing Frog
Where the lake has lapped / onto rock, where the storm / has dropped a puddle, / a lopsided frog / with full back legs / and tiny front fins / bobs...
Blazing Star
(mentzelia laevicaulis) / in the rubble at the foot of the cliff / next to the old volcano gone / bankrupt and stone cold / dead, at the edge / of the...
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Proof of an Afterlife
In the graveyard at Ottawa, Illinois, / Geiger-counters detect the afterlife. Here / and all across town in landfills the white dust / of radioactive radium and zinc sulfide – / kissed...