Stay, Illusion
I first read Lucie Brock-Broido in Poetry magazine a few years back. It was the issue that published the poem “Extreme Wisteria” (first link below) from this collection, Stay, Illusion. From the first …
I first read Lucie Brock-Broido in Poetry magazine a few years back. It was the issue that published the poem “Extreme Wisteria” (first link below) from this collection, Stay, Illusion. From the first …
There’s a ring of keys in a drawer in the kitchen of our house that open nothing – at least not that anyone in this house knows of. My kids …
The elevator door closed on the three of them: the fiction writer, the mother, and the preteen boy. The fiction writer was going to see her tax attorney on the …
He’s seen the comments in those liberal men’s magazines, he knows. Dems magazines, they should call them. The same ones who three years ago said it was somewhat slimming to …
This cafeteria, one of America’s loneliest inventions. Scavenger types everywhere, bald heads, pointed chins, they pay for their seat, but sometimes with no more than a cup of black coffee. …
I said, You have answers. I was trying to explain why I had stayed behind when everyone had gone. I said, I’m looking for answers. Yes, perhaps. Perhaps… I have …
This is an image from a collage I made (entitled “How Not To Die”) and shows a quote from Frederic Prokosch’s Storm and Echo (1948) and like many moments …
My wife thinks our new house is haunted. The baby, six months old, screams all night in his nursery. Nothing soothes him. She wants to move, she just won’t say …
Translucent day, picnic on the lawn. Lying back on a blanket, I hold the baby up in the air over the big, blue empty. There’s an aura around him as …
My recently estranged wife’s sister is cutting my hair. Her little sister, the youngest. The top sheet she’s covered me with has superhero puppies on it. It belongs to one …