“The Problem of Evil’s doing well these days: / Five international meetings in one year! / I’ll skip that one in India next Spring, // Calcutta’s too depressing”
“On the south-facing slopes / so infernally dry / the yuccas spear the sky, / and all the righteous hopes / of ranchers are in vain / for a grass-growing rain”
Layli Long Soldier’s poetry replies to the U.S. government’s apology to Native Americans and Julia Cameron offers concrete tools for fostering creativity
A place of hurt and waiting, shards and splinters, / Auto glass repairs, / Vic, grumpy and grouchy, / tells customers to shut up in his Italian accent.
"And yet he turns back, half a planet taking a long moment / in apparent curiosity at a stranger’s bounty, wondering if / another gift might be in the offing"
