A Storm Like No Other
What storm is brewing
With the falling of dead stars
That lie along these alleys of sea foam?
Suicidal waves
Rise and crash
Into the throat of a gaping gulf
Which …
What storm is brewing
With the falling of dead stars
That lie along these alleys of sea foam?
Suicidal waves
Rise and crash
Into the throat of a gaping gulf
Which …
who now pleads with the ancestors
seeing with naked eyes the gates of the dead
who now sees the impossibility of life
finding at last the answer to the question
and wonders …
Once, I drove through Virginia slush to NRA Headquarters,
the winter air humming
with the …
because there were bees.
And I’m not sorry for bees.
Not even the two who buried
their stingers in me and made me cry:
one by my left knee, one …
A minister blames this on the slaughter of unborn children. We enter a tunnel, and my breath
holds itself for comfort. My father suggests we find a copy of The Green …
At first, they said the mothers were drowning
in their own waters. Each mother agreed.
I am drowning she said. They said you should know
it is not your fault. …
Shadows stick into the horizon
like thorns of flame.
I am a magician,
angels on my right
illusions on my left.
On my shoulders, sands that lost their way
spout,
My story
is the story
of a hoe wearing thin
of a factory becoming a ruin
of a road falling out of repair
my story
is the story
of stone
turning …
Listen to Thomas McGuire’s introduction and recitation of the poem in Dutch.
The gloaming falls like ground.
In Holland lopes a hound.
A hound with yellow teeth.
He roves throughout the …
All animals were once human, but then
they sinned—
and God flooded our Earth
and Noah smuggled all those former humans in pairs. Each of them
was wicked, deceitful. And …
you speak to a mountain
by becoming
it your body in her
language of minerals
a whisper a humming
bird’s fluttering wings
since I became
a mother nearly a decade
in a café I watch a boy
maybe five years old
hit his sister again and again
till his mom gives him a phone
on which to watch videos of boys
shooting …