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Manifest Destinies, Black Rains
With the broadest principles of freedom for the foundation of our government — with a magnificent country, whose shores are washed by the great oceans, whose lakes are seas, whose rivers are the most majestic that water the earth, whose commerce whitens every sea, whose railroads and canals, like great arteries, intersect its whole surface, […]
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Jeff Clark, contributor
Suggested Regional Flora, et al. Amelanchier laevis / Allegheny Serviceberry Angelica atropurpurea / Angelica Sambuca Nigra “Black Lace” / Black Lace Elderberry When the Roses Bloom Again, Laura Cantrell (Diesel Only Records) Complications, Garrett Caples (Meritage) Acer palmatum “Sango-kaku” / Coral Bark Japanese Maple Wildflowers of the Western Great Lakes Region (Cranbrook Academy of Science) […]
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Poem
Graphic as a flower blooms a split lark’s minor stream
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Maker’s Mark
Phil says the writing is made out of reading, but it is more a matter of overwriting, of under- writing, of something erased coming to the surface, the long years, random papers found in a box. The box is not a window. The papers are turning to dust. I take myself out of the box […]
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Petals
the stretched out to never look at feet in the same “evening” dim lifts the crakly feet of sum animate animals straighten backs o r Spokey bike crush, portlandly scuffed up leg. electric track – esplanade St. John’s Bridgely. Christ Biota scaling petals that to some may seem indicated. II. it’s not the indication when […]
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On the Edge (2001)
Neighboring islands, North of storm. Words hold as much As words allow – White indiscriminate Waves and rocks, A tempest Friedrich Would have painted Stratocumulus, astride Some distant, German peak.
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Collection Plate (to Romare Beardon)
We take doctrine particulate, pocket-money in nomine Patris who begets a settled mind its own occasion without predicate, grammar, and a period. Time compounded fastens the difference with a lick. A gummy envelope holds heaven and earth, a note and a song.
