James Malone Smith is the editor of Don’t Leave Hungry: 50 Years of Southern Poetry Review (University of Arkansas Press, 2009). His poetry and fiction have appeared in Agni, Prairie [...]
A placid pond restless for wind Confusion of minnows in a willow’s shadow A pine seedling pale beneath ringing shades of great trees grown tedious as saints Brilliantly black, a monstrous piano [...]