Tributes

For Good

Rattle / October 2, 2011

We’re going to the country for good I told my kindergarten teacher. It was 1929. I wasn’t thinking forever– for goodmeant […]

Rattle / October 1, 2011

I used to know all the answers but I don’t anymore possess the assurance, bravado of foolish youth.

Rattle / September 13, 2011

“Goodbye everybody.” —Hart Crane, jumping off the SS Orizaba The suicide-by-gun takes a deep breath, jerks one finger, and it’s

Rattle / September 6, 2011

So my mother is rolling up her skirtbecause she spilled cold water on itand maybe she’s not wearinganything underneathand my

Rattle / September 3, 2011

O you and me at last, and us two only! —Walt Whitman There are only the two of us. The

Rattle / August 27, 2011

Because not everything I write is about myself. I used the word “she” not “me.” “he” not “you.” this is