Knives of the Poets
The philosophers keep hammering, eachto each. Editors choose scissors. Criticsfancy the blunt: crowbars, mallets, and such.Poets like knives. It starts […]
Poems, Sonnets, Tributes
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Any Hack Can Crank Out a Hundred Sonnets
Any hack can crank out a hundred sonnets if he has to; all you have to do is set up
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Silence Took My Tongue When My Brother Went
Silence took my tongue when my brother went away, now words are skittery rabbits: soft, furry lumps huddled in my
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Cover to Cover
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but thecollector’s passion borders on the chaos ofmemories.—Walter Benjamin I don’t collect them.
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Backward Sonnet for a Forward Thinker
“If only I knew now what I’ll know soon,” he likes to say. His office is immune to order, his
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Black Tights, A Halter Top
She’s waiting near the corner of Monroeand Pierce: spike heels, black tights, a halter top,her image coding sunlight. Who will