… to salt As Father in the garden Touches the magnolia The petals float about him The petals that are bitter He turns his … jungle Holding aloft the heart of a goat 6 Yem will not die for them You will not be born Father is he lengthening … Ghost in an arbor Is it your spirit Now the woman combing her hair Over a long stream Now the man rising to …
Poetry
… stay in the right. We meet at the stop sign where the two points intersect. In the timeline of the atom bomb, … An early review of Whistler’s Nocturne series also describes it as wallpaper, suggesting there’s no … measure time is to play until you hear the coyotes and then come home, which is mostly, also, what lovers do. …
Essays
… coffee. Suddenly, there is the sound of broken glass as I come flying through the window behind them. A surreal … of the Spirits . Plot has never been one of Rory’s strong points, so I think he relates to Fellini’s amorphous method … as he is with money. He calls me “Buddy,” but we are not buddies. I can’t recall having a single conversation with him. …
… Tolerance—Two Social Studies Tolerance. By Hendrick Willem Van Loon. New York: Boni … all civilized states—burst again into flame. The race, it becomes increasingly clear, has suffered a phylogenetic … But if a close-up of the human scene in the year A. D. 1926 does not thrill us with especial exultation, what shall …
… Report on the Russians. By W. L. White. Harcourt, Brace and Company. $2.50. The Spirit of Russian Economics. By J. F. Normano. The John Day Company. $2.00. The Ukraine: A Submerged Nation. By William … “Journey for Margaret,” “They Were Expendable,” and “Queens Die Proudly.” The fourteen chapters of his report from …
On Becoming
… Because leaving my birth country happened in Spanish and coming to terms with my sexuality happened in English … to speak and write in another language whose origin is also Latin might not have been enough. Said a different way: … to an inciting incident, navigate through different plot points and experience a climax? Memories of my adolescence, …