The Carolina Quarterly articles from June 2008

The Carolina Quarterly archives from June 2008

Transport.
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Turning Fifty.(Poem)(Brief article)
June 22, 2008... Turning Fifty As if the toppled line of shade had measured well its range, engineered the frail trunk's fall in storm to barely miss cornice and overhang. Was it like this that the first ancients took ...

Terpander of Lesbos.(Poem)(Brief article)
June 22, 2008... Terpander of Lesbos He must have had some kind of influence, If only that she learned his lyrics once, If only that, when she was still a girl, She gave his double tetrachord a whirl. She must have known a couple...

Aurora.(Short story)
June 22, 2008... Atwater spends close to a week in Chicago before calling his daughter. The other occupants of the men's hotel are lifers, penitents, he thinks, and he regards them with scorn. Jaws working at curds of tobacco or gum, they shuffle past in the...

The Mutton Village.(Poem)(Brief article)
June 22, 2008... The Mutton Village Yellow ichu grass spreading east to west, railroad tacked across it like a metal stitch. The hand-built brick of the low houses seems almost blue. The village surrounds the...

Flower, castle.
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Gold medal flour.
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Set to Rise.(Poem)(Brief article)
June 22, 2008... Set to Rise Moon-teeth some bakers in France call the crescent rolls they make-- curls of yeast dough they slide into ready heat. Enough on a barely-lipped baking sheet to bite across a clear, lack-a-daisy ...

All I've got to bank on.(Short story)
June 22, 2008... My mother and I lived in Greenville County, Florida in a one-bedroom faded green trailer with dirty white shutters. It was pitched at a slight angle, sloping down to the left and if you stepped at just the right spot on the second step, the...

Clorox.(Poem)(Brief article)
June 22, 2008... Clorox It's been twenty years and no one can make her walk through that gate on the Common, granite with grit-darkened dates of the Minutemen passing through Cambridge, and the decorative iron lace; the night the...

Stay.
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In the Hands of a Careless God.(Poem)(Brief article)
June 22, 2008... In the Hands of a Careless God "... their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste."--DEUTERONOMY 32:35 These goddamn spiders, these...

Trout fishing in Chipped Beef and Gravy.
June 22, 2008... I am sitting beside Richard Brautigan in a small industrial coffee shop and he is telling me that Trout Fishing in America has nothing to do with trout fishing and that fascinates me because of the number of times he specifically mentions...

Helvetica.
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Proofs.(Personal account)
June 22, 2008... Proofs may be my favorite stage in making a book. It's not the writing of the book itself, which is ambiguous and protracted, the committing of poems year after year, often with no definite idea of how they'll fit together as a collection...

A Fisheries Scientist Loses a Pile Perch.(Poem)(Brief article)
June 22, 2008... A Fisheries Scientist Loses a Pile Perch I. No wind. Pilings creak quietly under their load of timber and decay. Predators flower, tubeworms and anemones distending pale tentacles. Year by year, silvery...

Dead Reckoning.(Poem)(Brief article)
June 22, 2008... Dead Reckoning I used to think he willed the rabbits to be just where he looked. In the fields he paid fierce attention, would see them sitting in their tight tucks under honeysuckle before they spooked. He...

Birch.
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The people in Ansel Adams' landscapes.
June 22, 2008... Aspen Grove, North Rim GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, ARIZONA, 1947 It's dark back in that shade, but someone's in there. Clank of metal helmets or scabbards, de Soto? Cortez? Who's in there? Come on out. There are archipelagos,...

The edge of the floating world: the photography of Jeff Fowler.(PORTFOLIO)
June 22, 2008... The Floating World (or Ukiyo), refers to a feudal period of Japanese history in which the country was isolated from the outside by the shoguns and a metropolitan culture based on Buddhist ideals of impermanence flourished in Tokyo, resulting...

Style.(Short story)
June 22, 2008... The night Caroline Middleton saw her father wearing her prom dress, life split like a scored pill. She startled him in the small house towards the back property line. The family had renovated the small building, which had once been farm...

Abandoned.
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Not Yet.(Poem)(Brief article)
June 22, 2008... Not Yet The whistle means train. The steam above the trees means train. We have no reason to suspect the unseen. Not yet has the whistle meant scream. Not yet has the steam above the trees meant fire.

Night Life.(Poem)(Brief article)
June 22, 2008... Night Life Her face is the neon OPEN. Her desperation lights the storefront window. Her voice, the ticking. The clock that feels its way through the nightly hours, slowly. Carefully, the hands ...

Masterpiece.
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Shades of blue.(Short story)
June 22, 2008... SEPTEMBER The blood won't come. It is almost two weeks late but still I wait for it. When it first came I was only eleven; the doctor said I might miss a few months as my body adjusted, but that only happened once. I was fifteen and...

The Norfolk and Western.(Poem)(Brief article)
June 22, 2008... The Norfolk and Western I am standing in the abandoned passenger station that has stood for years like a stain on the dragging skirt of Hotel Roanoke. It is still 1953, before the last steam engine rolled out of...

Patti, on her balcony.
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Suicide.(Poem)(Brief article)
June 22, 2008... Suicide Here in the poem she is still breathing. The blood-- spattered room, which the neighbors will scour for some unblemished scrap of understanding, is clean and tidy, even the old ...

A good problem.(Epistles by Mark Jarman and Spill by Michael Chitwood )
June 22, 2008... EPISTLES by Mark Jarman SPILL by Michael Chitwood When it comes to the genesis of poetic creation, not all we see is good, particularly when the subject is God. It's a topic worthy of cautious reverence among poets for a number of...