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She lives in the shadow of her parents’ teachings. From childhood to grown woman, they fed her God’s pitch for goodness, and she swallowed all of it. She has wed herself to chastity, remote-control television, and...

Black as licorice, starlings peck through tufts of grass, while squirrels skidder over lengthening shadows, ransack the yard for last year’s acorns. A stray robin hops stops hops stops. How quietly they go about their...

Had I but lust enough and time, This pawing, sir, were no crime. I’d dally gladly on your knee, And let your hands roam mainly free You sir should bonk me once or twicely, Put it to me oh-so-nicely, Round and Round we’d go. And...

I didn’t quite understand what came to be inevitable about my world It was grey – the sidewalks, the streets, the buildings, even the schools My ball field was a paved square in front of the school’s windows Even with the...

from L’Allegria Versa il 15 febbraio 1917 Lontano lontano come un cieco m’hanno portato per mano   DISTANCE Far away far away like a blind man they took me by my hand Wally Swist’s books include Huang Po and the Dimensions...

from L’Allegria Versa il 16 febbraio 1917 Sto addossato a un tumulo di fieno branzato Un acre spasimo scoppia e brulica dai solchi grassi Ben nato mi sento di gente di terra Mi sento negli occhi attenti alle fasi del cielo...

from L’Allegria Versa il 18 febbraio 1917 Mi sento la febbe di questa piena di luce Accolgo questa giornata come il frutto che si addolcisce Avro stanotte un roimoso come un latrato perso nel deserto   DIVERSION I feel the...

from Vallone il 18 aprile 1917 La mia sqauallida vita si estende piu spaventata di se In un infinito che mi calca e mi preme sol suo fievole tatto   ALWAYS NIGHT My squalid life extends more frightened than itself In an...

If the conflict in Vietnam was a dragon, then America in the ’70s was a lovely green-eyed girl. A strawberry-blonde, pretty and tall, riding her older brother’s yellow ten-speed hands-free. Coasting down the street from my home,...