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  Supper  for Emma                                                        This evening, trees outside yellowing to winter, inside, the ceiling lamp lit against too-early dark, round table with papers pushed aside to make room […]

VILLANELLE: LOOKING WESTWARD FROM A DISTANT SHORE  I have tried to find another island like you, but such remote and satisfying solitude is rare: windswept timeless rock in blue  bright ocean. I had assumed that the U. K. would be made up of nothing but islands, where I could try (and have tried) to find […]

COMMERCIAL FISHERMAN: AN EXCERPT She’s there at the dock holding his child  an infant. He squats on the deck in a clammy fog touching his beard with wet fingers. She’s pale. They’re Bible people.       grace and peace be multiplied       cast your care  the sea seeketh whom       it may devour Coming in over the shoals and […]