Sacrifice for the Future Astronaut Every night at six, my parents return from a moon ... to orbit Earth, who sits next to her bowl. My parents are thirsty when they come home. My ... mother goes for a glass of water, my father cracks the Budweiser. They don’t grunt once ...
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Fall 1988
Page 150 from Issue 73 My tongue eschews the doctored mint Of slogans. Dirge it may, But not ... thyself," and tranquilizes rage. Sooner his placebo than its slogan twin, So reserve my cross. Till then ... pill. Empty vials balloon to funeral wreaths Kwashi,okoT bellies stretch to rounded Water,pots and mimic ...
"may the girl rejoice, moved, in the familiar sound"; rendered slightly differently by my ... young ladies will enjoy them / when they have got over the strangeness." My sadly dutiful ... be risque, a Propertius unavailable to my fidelity to the Latin." This sense of ...
Child's Drawing: 'Boy Holding a Ball at a Funeral'; The Word; The Tank Print ... Holding a Ball at a Funeral" Jewish Museum in Prague Next to crazily leaning slabs of slate, ... Sunday, January 1, 1995 Poetry Work Issue 92 Print Share Tweet ...
unmediated slice of life. At the same time, poetry in voices-or poetry that creates characters-can be read as ... the life of the ad executive in my poem. For me, that job was a horror. Yet to write that character ... time as an advertising copywriter in New York City and there is a part of me in "My Last TV ...
wheel of love. The country fiddler My uncle played the fiddle-more elegantly the violin A favourite at ... and died of it. During the depression many dossed in his cellar. I attended his funeral in the Church ... Issue 21 page John Montague Monday, March 1, 1971 Poetry Work Issue 21 Print Share Tweet ...
Dead. The Dead Return. My father used the euphemisms—she’s gone, she passed away—which my sister pointed ... (459–66) The diction here helps to indicate the ages of the characters. Generally speaking, adults, like ... believable adolescent narrator makes different observations than an adult character would, and this ...
Page 77 from Issue 5 soprano for a few years till my voice cracked. Neither the prayers ... by every schoolchild the salute to the flag, a constitution day address, the funeral oration which ... where I was. I described my condition with scientific accuracy and offered every reasonable hypothesis ...
Page 47 from Issue 63 to the flag, a constitution day address, the funeral oration which had been ... I was. I described my condition with scientific accuracy and offered every reasonable hypothesis about ... Actually I saved this till the last because the speech had become more than the character's words ...
a funeral until my father died this year, and that was more of a service, really, with no church music and ... stories go, funerals then were often political affairs. I've seen pictures of my ... Die kakies kom!" Did I even then identify with the enemy? My brother never lay quiet for very ...
