Emily Dickinson, “Experience is the Angled Road” (910)
Watch Tom Brady at his peak throw a football low and away to a receiver who has yet to turn around and dive for it. It isn’t a misplay. That’s the actual play. ...
Category: poetry
Tanya Holtland, “seven.”
The visible war, it says. In the visible war / we look. War carries distinction, division, and destruction. It should be difficult to look at, to contemplate. W...
Gerard Manley Hopkins, “As Kingfishers Catch Fire”
Growing with a poem seems a quaint triviality. More pressing matters must receive attention. Employment calls for competence, not reflection; the love given to ...
Rick Barot, “During the Pandemic” 1; Jackson Pollock, “Red Composition” (1946)
for Ariana “During the pandemic,” Rick Barot informs us, “I thought of abstract art.” Deadly sickness and artistic style can appear a strange combination, but p...
Paul Celan, “I hear the axe has flowered”
I hear the axe has flowered is quite a sentence. It combines an instrument of violence, an axe, with a vision of growth. In case one feels tempted to say an axe...