Poems

So You Said What You Had to Say

Rattle / September 23, 2009

So you said what you had to say, so what if your words are like a road that finally got […]

Rattle / September 22, 2009

In the old days the Blaans believed that a man could not be told apart from a woman. The word

Rattle / September 19, 2009

The spaces between, say, raindrops in the act of turning to snow are holy, holding as they do snow rain

Rattle / September 18, 2009

It is rumored that when the famous linguist William Jacobsen was struck by a car, he shouted, “Help!” in 47

Rattle / September 17, 2009

She whispers not this bed, chair, room, the next room, porch. Too familiar, predictable, the boredom unrelenting. The outcome known

Rattle / September 12, 2009

This is the evening my sister drove home in the ’78 Nova that drained her first savings account at Farmer’s