MICHAEL S. HARPER
Molasses and the Three Witches
this is the first barnfire
in history
All posts filed under: Archival Features
A fresh look at poems and essays previously published in the print edition.
MICHAEL S. HARPER
A. R. AMMONS Muse
how many / times must I be broken and reassembled!
ANNE SEXTON The Kite
The air was a season they had bought…
Sherman Alexie: Home Improvement
I never learned to fix anything
Paige Lewis: The Saints Don’t Think of You Fondly
It always comes / back to light.
Carl Phillips: Darkening, Brightening
a game, something someone / played, once.
Tomás Q. MorÃn: Nudist Colony
…more than a pool / of smudges and parts.
Joan Swift: “Sometimes a Lake”
“In the background always a lake, / always the one you kept trying to row across.”
Kendra DeColo I Can’t Stop Thinking about the Room
“the swell / of narcotics transmuted / into testament”
Charles Wright Two Poems from Littlefoot
I have nothing to say. I am a recording machine, / a listening device.