Rules Of Thumb That the reason for any action is buried beneath two or three coats of paint. That a foundation lives longer than any other part of the house but will crack and decay, just like a motor mount or the motor in your chest. When caulk dries, a tear streaks a child’s dirty …
Foil I ride the long arc of the freeway through West L.A., the low, bland shops and houses flexing in the heat like mats of algae, distant hills and towers wrapped in petrochemical gauze. I’m thinking about love the way fishermen on the pier must think about their tropical homes, the shacks and shanties filled …
Lee Rossi has that gift so many great poets have of being able to pull universal truths from purely personal experiences. Rossi’s new autobiographical collection, Darwin’s Garden, follows the narrator through childhood to fatherhood. We follow him through a confusing boyhood of Catholicism in St. Louis with a father who has sometimes violent emotions. Later, …
Lee Rossi is too modest to mention his large and enduring impact on contemporary culture. The secondary literature about him and his work already fills several feet of library shelving. In fact, Google had to buy an additional cloud to accommodate all the internet interest. That being said, he would simply mention that his two …
Lee Rossi is the author of Wheelchair Samurai, his latest book. His poems, reviews and interviews have appeared in The Sun, Poetry Northwest, The Beloit Poetry Journal, and The Southern Poetry Review. He is a staff reviewer and interviewer for the online magazine Pedestal. ***** No Face If he had a face, it would include his mother’s ears, …
“After the first freeze you pick your way among leaves’ confetti…”
You’ve done this dozens of times…
“Motel sex, no matter how good with your own wife, / is better with someone else’s…”
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