“Daylight disbanded the phantom crew.” —Edith Wharton
The sentimental is a rumor,
inexorable memory
of cottonwood seed
left in its husk, of
a grief spent down to dust. (More …)
Maxine Chernoff chairs the Creative Writing Department at SFSU. She is the author of 14 books of poetry and six collections of fiction. Winner of a 2013 NEA Fellowship in Poetry, she also was selected for the 2009 PEN Translation Award for her co-translation of The Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin.
“Daylight disbanded the phantom crew.” —Edith Wharton
The sentimental is a rumor,
inexorable memory
of cottonwood seed
left in its husk, of
a grief spent down to dust. (More …)
Not the day for the false alarm,
the robin-breasted moment,
the double entendre in the mirror. (More …)