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When Death took a holiday, he picked her for his summer girl, glad to have that white slab of thigh against his femur at the seaside. Cold waves rolled over her toes, which became pink seashells. [...]

After the 67th Hurricane this century, we began at last to understand the missionaries who told us the good book would save us from the lash of eternal hellfire, the sour mango taste of poverty. [...]

The moon leavens. Clumps of petrified potash gleam like fists in the furrow corrugation. Gymnosperm spills in the couch grass. Cropheld and fallow there is more beneath the sole than upturned by [...]

1 The Archbishop of Toledo never woke up that morning so the peasants that had waited six days for the fish entered the dungeons and released their compatriots. Only the one they called The Snail [...]

It is all a rhythm, from the shutting door, to the window opening, the seasons, the sun’s light, the moon, the oceans, the growing of things, the mind in men personal, recurring in them again, [...]

Spring starts this month all over again. White boy special advertised at local barber, three dollars a skinning, so save money with Oster shears. You have a dream that frightens everyone. [...]

Sometimes, even to live, is an act of courage, but not a passion this month. Since sex has left your relationship, use Passion flowers which contain active flavonoids for sedative qualities. [...]

Jaundiced is the note that sings out in terror when life affirms the presence of light. When day shines and life pours through like a slant of God’s rays. Here in the moment, away from tug of [...]

mist in morning air is droplets on grass Sunday windless clay smells the sun hides in gray shades lowly beneath me a red berry sits on a weed patch just between cracks in the alley road where a [...]

A Farewell for Robert Creeley The news of Robert Creeley’s death arrived via an email from Michael Rumaker, forwarding the stark note he’d received from his friend Henry Ferrini: “Bob [...]