Rodger LeGrand has three short collections of poems, Hope and Compulsion (Big Table Publishing Company, 2009), Waking Up On a Sinking Boat (Pudding House Press, 2008), andVarious Ways of Thinking about the Universe(Finishing Line Press, 2005). His poems and reviews have appeared in The Cortland Review, The Atlanta Review, Paper Street, The Apple Valley Review, The Boston Literary Magazine, The […]
Your particle receptors, green islands silhouetted in white, scleral seas, watch the world spin around a sun, through a universe, passed centuries of dust. Comets have crumbled, fallen through the atmosphere, cosmic and dry, cold from fumbling through space alone. What’s left behind, has landed in your bones, your hair, and you inhale deep into […]
Dripping over itself, dripping over itself. Slumped and slowed his body drips over itself like the moon melting into small drops of glue. His pores fill and over- fill with hours of thinking and rethinking each decision he’s made, each family dinner he can recall, even his laugh, regrettable laugh. All of it stuffed into […]
Dirt blood, tar blood, mud brain and eyes, trailer park skull, trailers parked on loose stones, exposed to the cold, to those who crawl under to hide from the police, to stay out of the cold, with their gold teeth and needles. Tar the roof in the summer, tar the aluminum to keep leaks away […]
Rodger LeGrand, author of Various Ways of Thinking about the Universe (Finishing Line Press, 2005), recommends two poets.