“A bridge across the water like the limb of a prisoner on the stretching rack.” (“Island of Donan Castle”) “Every perfect orange brick is a bandage spread across / an open wound the organs have already tumbled out of.” (“In Dresden, a Wall Without a House”) “Yes, the hill...
The verse is strikingly steady and deep-rooted, the subjects oddly near and pertinent, as public as a bridge or tower clock, private as exchanges overheard between parents and children; from the gentrification of endeared neighborhoods, to the maddening rhetoric of our lawmakers. In these poems,...
We crossed over the bridge and found a parking spot at the State Park property on the Whidbey Island side of the bridge. I was happy I zipped over to Fred Meyer to pick up a Discovery Pass before I picked up my passengers. You need a Discovery Pass to park at the State Park lot. ...