Poetry
… Infirmary the absent have left the window open: the last soldier, stricken, his moustache gently covered over, has left … of wool—the woolly dead— and beards of fishes, as the soldiers twirl their ice-crystal ragamuffin moustaches, …
… clock Runs but one day and stops and never strikes, They come to find him waiting, shoulders still bent, Worn head … them this prayer: Give them peace. But for the children who come back once more To find him, strange, incredible, … pines on the ridge, The ragged fence that lattices the sky, Come outlined sharply as the marble edge After the …
Editor's Desk
… People & Place I love the summer issues of commercial magazines with their exotic vacation escapes. … will shape the content of the print and digital magazine, website, and e-books and will provide creative direction to … qualifications, Ralph Eubanks has the most essential ingredient for the job: an eager, inquisitive mind. We look …
… may call it ‘nonsense’ if you like, but I’ve heard nonsense compared with which that would be as sensible as a … Every great author has his individuality, but he has also his kinships with others. Books, like their writers, … any body at all, it is making for itself all the time new bodies, changing with the times. It is this power of …
Poetry
[In the room, the roots of things have decayed] In the room, the roots of things have decayed, and like a bud, healthy, tender— the big table sprouts a little table, the big chair sprouts a little chair. Two bookcases— one dying, one new— the pin-sized …
Fiction
… being good at exactly the same moment. Around this time the commissions stopped coming and I decided to take a job I was … matter, I said, because it didn’t. My grandfather, who had died when I was a baby, had set up a trust fund so large and … on his own since he was sixteen and that person is also selling drugs you’ve never even heard of, and if he’s …