Tributes

Poetry and Scale

Rattle / January 19, 2012

Flying changes the scale of things. From up here at 40,000 feet, the immense boreal forest of northern Canada looks […]

Rattle / January 14, 2012

From the garden rose the sound of bees that lurched and wobbled through the peonies. We ate eggs, French toast,

Rattle / January 9, 2012

What need or duty makes me leave our warm bed with you put on cold 4 a.m. clothes heat coffee,

Rattle / January 3, 2012

The town ends at Pearl’s place, a rough plank four room shack. Half an hour to school walking if you

Rattle / December 28, 2011

AFGHANISTAN CONFESSION 49 the chaplain pulls all the lousy shifts safe beside the dead the brass choir in his head

Rattle / December 27, 2011

They’ll starve anyway;or will you give them your share?Drowning’s best.Find a burlap sack. Potato will do. If it’s not big