Venices - Paul Morand

My Antonia - Willa Cather

The Poetry of William Carlos Williams of Rutherford - Wendell Berry

The Prospector - J.M.G. Le Clezio

Tonight No Poetry Will Serve - Adrienne Rich

Waiting for Rain, Music

Burn me some music Send my roots rain I'm swept
dry from the inside Hard winds rack my core

A struggle at the roots of the mind Whoever said
It would go on and on like this

Straphanger swaying inside a runaway car
palming a notebook scribbled in

contraband calligraphy against the war
poetry wages against itself