Last night I heard a long ripping sound but didn’t realize that a plant was uprooting, preparing to relocate. At dawn I saw my blue mammoth creep across the yard with huge paddle leaves working the air. I ran out to grab it and return it to its plot, but it shrugged me off with […]
William Doreski
William Doreski has published three critical studies and several collections of poetry. He has taught writing and literature at Emerson, Goddard, Boston University, and Keene State College. His most recent books are A Black River,A Dark Fall,and Train to Providence.Visit his blog at williamdoreski.blogspot.com.
Steeplebush
In the month of steeplebush a few years after Frost’s death I’m browsing his Ripton cabin. A sibilance flows through it, rustling the yellowed pages of Modern Library books scattered like country gravestones. When I lie on his smooth old daybed with its blue cotton coverlet I see myself white and wrinkled in landscapes smutty […]