• Horse Chestnuts

    William Logan

    Summer 2017

    The hard-polish, bank-floor
    sheen of horse chestnuts
    fall after fall showered us

    with naval mines
    fertile in the gloom,
    each erotic as a Madonna

    or the rosary beads of nuns.
    My shrine lay deep in the closet
    as the trees refused their vintage,

    leaves baked in winter’s air.
    In the dawn of March,
    I opened that armory

    to a spring moldy with verdigris.

    William Logan’s new book of poetry, "Rift of Light," will be published by Penguin in October. His book of new readings of canonical poems, "Shelley's Wrinkled Lip, Smith's Gigantic Leg," will be published next spring by Columbia University Press.

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    The Same River

    Jeff Mock

    When you enter a strange
    City, it becomes familiar
    A little—that doorway
    Is a place to stand out of
    The rain, that maple is like
    Another maple several
    States away . . .

    On Stanley Elkin

    Francine Prose

    In the summer of 1995, I was asked to read a passage from Stanley Elkin’s work at a memorial service for him, to be held during the Sewanee Writers Conference, at the University of the South, in Sewanee, Tennessee. Stanley had died that past May.

    The Loon's Cry

    Howard Nemerov

    On a cold evening, summer almost gone,
    I walked alone down where the railroad bridge
    Divides the river from the estuary.
    There was a silence over both the waters,
    The river’s concentrated reach, the wide
    Diffusion of the delta . . .

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