for Emma Askew
“Shifting brilliancies” (from Squarings: Lightenings)Seamus Heaney
Shifting brilliancies. Then winter light
In a doorway, and on the stone doorstep
A beggar shiver… Read More
Legacy (from Poetry)Amiri Baraka
(For Blues People)
In the south, sleeping against
the drugstore, growling under
the trucks and stoves, stumbling
through and over the cluttered eyes
of early… Read More