This is a shout out to the only rap show this side of the Susquehanna, a shout out to P-Man for mixing Nas with Wu-Tang, the new one by the Gravediggaz with Tupac, ‘Lil. Kim, & Biggie Smalls. So props to the records, stacked like mica, the CD’s diesel and sedimentary on tables, speakers, floors; […]
Though my grandfather never came rafting, Pop Pop made a watercolor from a photo of my father, brother, and me in a four-man at Woodall Shoals, and he always asked about the work and all the other hopelessly heroic jobs he probably didn’t approve of as if he’d start them tomorrow with nothing except what […]
for John Towers He dances the flats, gleaner of tides in yellow knee highs, snatches the creatures that spit & cough, rugged razors of lavender, sphagnum, peach — throws out the sprung ones, mudders, black hearts sliding into rockweed, kelp, & knotted wrack. Each winter, when the Gulf bottoms out, he goes, salt-licked & nerve-numb, […]
Father yelled “bird in the field,” and though I saw its wings were longer & sharper-hooked than the mourning dove’s, his voice was bulletproof, deader serious than when he left the head of the dinner table to fire at the solicitors another, “we’re not interested.” So I moved his twenty gauge in front of the […]
You don’t know how the aluminum pole will feel on a body that’s been underwater for three days, and you don’t quite trust that you can tell the difference between flesh and wood this evening as you poke and probe from a raft platform in a rapid paddlers call Jawbone. All you know is the […]
Nothing undoes the knot behind my chest more than watching you take off your clothes before bed. Eyes on the floor, wall, or window as if some swath of dust helps you remember its the blouse Ruth left last March, the underwear you wore to graduation, the bra you’ll go to India in. It gets […]
Thorpe Moeckel, author of Odd Botany (Silverfish Review Press, 2002), talks about how he became interested in poetry.
Thorpe Moeckel, author of Odd Botany (Silverfish Review Press, 2002), talks about his writing ritual.