Poetry
At Great Point Let the waters of heaven be gathered into one place . . . Genesis 1 Is this the very face of an angry God, or simply his instrument? On calm mornings halos of light hovering over the water . . . a few feathers on the sand as if an angel has …
… Dying Angel of God, my guardian dear, to whom God’s love commits me here, ever this day be at my side, to light, to … Devlin household since 1933, the year that May, his wife, died in childbirth. Molly prayed with absolute faith but … to directions for a sudden and complicated journey. His false teeth were in a glass on the bed table, next to a copy …
Reporting
… Sixty Hours of Terror: “It’s Do or Die” Editor’s Note—This is part two of a four-part series [ … & Tower (Priyam Dhar). III. “It’s Do or Die” November 26, 2008. Late Night. Nariman House. Assistant Commissioner … of the complex, using maps to point out entry and exit points as gunshots above continued to ring out. No matter …
Poetry
… when I was feverish in a hotel. That time I cried a lot but also wasn’t thinking very straight. This time I’m thinking … love. So I’d seen her both really in love and grieving. The combination of these things I thought made us maybe … when it was over, she’d just wish to be waiting again. He died and she was right. The pages of mourning …
… Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson. Harcourt, Brace and Company. $3.50. Those who have felt the urge to read … that “ex-sogerraider” means both “exaggerator” and “ex-soldier-raider” or that “chalk full of master-plasters” means … history, when viewed as a whole, shows no progress. It reveals no accumulation of truth, only the repetition of …
Poetry
… Thought draws the imaginary of the past: a knowledge becoming. — Édouard Glissant The … via the Mississippi River. Nearly half of the lake acres studied in America are too contaminated for swimming, fishing, … rocks, and and and. These bodies of land and water are portals of nature. Those portals are basimbi, or cymbee, …