THAT
THAT I did love you once and every leaf shook with your breath. Between us lay delicious heresy, a bed of incest. We two entwined broke over continents inside a wave of...
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TRANQUILITY
TRANQUILITY The living tree Rings up years In narrow bands The time we see Is parsed by gears With minute hands And eternity Turns fertile spheres To fossil sands...
Read MoreDark Matter
Dark Matter It masses like a day spent alone No book no radio no phone. Like a December cloud about to blow Scything trees with wind and snow. And like a shadow on the...
Read MoreAGAINST A NOVELIST’S METAPHOR
I wrote this poem in response to an interview I heard on NPR with a Granta editor. He had edited an issue with new, young novelists whom he characterized as bold and...
Read MoreIt’s a Cold Rain
It’s a cold rain Tarnished silver flakes Off the clouds and stains A puddle by the rake The flat grey mirror breaks When water drills the drains And the thawing earth...
Read MoreKEITH DUNLAP, GUEST POET
The universe may be chaotic, accidental, random and contingent but the human universe is fraught with pattern and meaning. So I assume that my recent reacquaintance...
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