Cloudburst (live)
Gabriel Fried reading “Cloudburst,” live at Bates College, September 27, 2007.
Gabriel Fried
Doll House (live)
Gabriel Fried reading “Doll House,” live at Bates College, September 27, 2007.
Mid-Fall (live)
Gabriel Fried reading “Mid-Fall,” live at Bates College, September 27, 2007.
Scarecrow Fair (live)
Gabriel Fried reading “Scarecrow Fair,” live at Bates College, September 27, 2007.
Making the New Lamb Take (live)
Gabriel Fried reading “Making the New Lamb Take,” live at Bates College, September 27, 2007.
The Places We Knew Not to Go as Children
The places we knew not to go as children we went anyway. Something in the jag and shimmer of them herded us. Something in their surfaces enchanted us. Something seeming sticky. The bog that bores into the orchard like decay into a tooth glistens like a ball field with algae. We walk on floorboards in […]
Guard Dog
It takes this porch to make her mythic to herself—this square of rail and floorboard. From here she sees the dense red clay. Beyond the marshes, the tides commit themselves to borders. From this she understands the meaning of property and sightline. She understands the well of rumbling and lets the howls gallop […]
Demeter, after
Each farmer loses something of the harvest; each has planted rows too near the forest. I’ve lost myself in losing her. The torch is cast aside and smolders. I return now, after years, to work the earth as one returns to sex: Not to sow. To rehearse. To feel the cold dirt […]