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We sit here on the window sill in the little chairs high above the snow. You wear your summer skin behind your eyes— clear as this window pane.
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MASTHEAD Directors DeWitt Henry Peter O'Malley Coordinating Editor for This Issue Paul Hannigan Associate Editor James Randall CONTRIBUTORS RUSSELL BANKS is an old dear friend of the editor of this issue of Ploughshares. JAY BOGGIS is one of the editor's favorite friends. GEORGE BOGIN is one of those rare people the editor has never met….
“You can be so inconsiderate.” ”You are too sensitive.” “Then why don’t you take my feelings into consideration?” ”If you weren’t so sensitive it wouldn’t matter.” * * * “You seem to really care about me only when you want me to do something for you.” ”You do…
MASTHEAD Directors DeWitt Henry Peter O'Malley Coordinating Editor for This Issue Frank Bidart Associate Editors Lloyd Schwartz Robert Pinsky CONTRIBUTORS FRANK BIDART'S first book is Golden State (Braziller, 1973); the second, The Book of the Body, will appear next year. ELIZABETH BISHOP now lives in Boston and teaches at Harvard. She is preparing a book…
You live among the remnants of an ancient civilization that has left behind it an intricate system of canals and waterways. No one understands the books and rituals your ancestors handed down to you, but somehow everybody assumes that it must be necessary to maintain the waterways to irrigate the rice crop. Only at the…
The Bronze Statue (Léon-Paul Fargue) The frog on the tumbler-game in the park Gets bored at night, when it all gets dark. She thinks a statue’s life is absurd, Always about to pronounce a great word, The Word . . . She would rather be—as she’d often hope— Blowing bubbles of music with…
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