Elegy for What Survives Inside the Body
2 August 2006
Vol. 6, No. 2
poetry, elegy
Suddenly she's bawling, tells the entire story, like you do
when your world is unfamiliar, the hazy bodies lost in black.
It takes six years for the pieces to make themselves apparent…
Two Halves: Elegy for One Summer's Dawn
30 July 2006
Vol. 6, No. 2
poetry, elegy, editors' select
Bellefontaine: a town on the way to somewhere else, a place
where you run out of gas, stop to make love on a picnic table
somewhere by the wheat field—when, toward magic hour, the boy
already loaded the gun, the smell of bacon wafting outside…
Monologue of the Betrayed Woman After Reading Anne Carson
6 November 2005
Vol. 5, No. 3
poetry, prose poem
10. Do grapes feel that sweet while crushing them barefoot? Should I have made love like she did—sticky, swelled, then bursting?
