The affair of night running began as an escape from the angry arms of a disgruntled July in which the fields dried to brown chalk and death hung in the trees, waiting. But the night was another type of life. Then, the wind spoke to the ache in the shoulders, ...Read more]]> http://penandcape.com/poetry/young-man-in-reference-to-that-final-act-of-villainy%e2%80%94death/feed/ 0 http://penandcape.com/poetry/too-slow-for-escape-a-letter-to-young-man/ http://penandcape.com/poetry/too-slow-for-escape-a-letter-to-young-man/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:25:36 +0000 admin http://penandcape.com/?p=157 Too Slow for Escape: A Letter to Young Man (The Flash)

Once, I ran into a burning building— the flames danced like a hedge of boxwood staggering in the wind. The kitchen was a blast furnace. The blender was blackened, the refrigerator melted. The cabinets clattered and belched.

The living room couch roared, its cushions bred embers. The light bulbs ...Read more]]> http://penandcape.com/poetry/too-slow-for-escape-a-letter-to-young-man/feed/ 0 http://penandcape.com/poetry/issue-1-%e2%80%9cthe-secret-origins-of-young-man%e2%80%9d/ http://penandcape.com/poetry/issue-1-%e2%80%9cthe-secret-origins-of-young-man%e2%80%9d/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:19:23 +0000 admin http://penandcape.com/?p=148 Issue #1: “The Secret Origins of YOUNG MAN!”

Country house. Old. Gray. Almost a shanty. Short and rotund, Mother works in small herb garden. Her skin is dark. Her hair in a pony tail. Her hands dirty. It is Mother’s Day and Young Man is not at home when the blood vessel in his mother’s head falls in on itself. ...Read more]]> http://penandcape.com/poetry/issue-1-%e2%80%9cthe-secret-origins-of-young-man%e2%80%9d/feed/ 0