Poems

My Grandfather’s 90th

Rattle / February 13, 2009

Everyone not dead was there: that couple from Poland, his friends from the Y. And there was my grandfather in […]

Rattle / February 12, 2009

A woman downstairs is speaking Spanish on a cell phone. She hasn’t taken a breath in forty minutes. Her task

Rattle / February 8, 2009

DIANNE CARROLL BURDICK: “I photographed all the images with black & white film and printed all images on fiber-base black

Rattle / February 3, 2009

ELLEN PECKHAM: “An adolescent, chafing against my provincial environment, I saw Breughel’s winter landscapes and suddenly my geography (snowy fields,

Rattle / February 1, 2009

Dick: thanks for your letters and bold thoughts on expectation. I agree with you, every day we struggle with the

Rattle / January 31, 2009

Jennifer Gresham HALFWAY HOUSE FOR THE INCOHERENT She gathered them from the edges of cities like wildflowers, gave them each