Tributes

Sestina for Adjuncts

Rattle / November 25, 2016

Caring is all about shit.—The Lady in the Van All those articles on the nationwide plight of adjunct faculty fail […]

Rattle / November 23, 2016

His face, a flag, fades
and folds into
what it once was—
in death, an anthem
to itself.

Rattle / November 21, 2016

for Ryan You were in my poetry workshop for just ten weeks, but they were good weeks. I liked you.

Rattle / November 18, 2016

He closed his eyes when I asked him to but I couldn’t then, we were so young. So we

Rattle / November 16, 2016

She asked for a pillow. I brought her a fork. She asked for a cigarette. I brought her a

Rattle / November 14, 2016

after Wheat Fields with Reaper, Auvers,Vincent van Gogh, oil on canvas, 1890Toledo Museum of Art He wears no shrouded hood,