Kyle Lubelski
David D. Lee
ENG-W280
April 22, 2013
End
of the Road: An Anthology
Contents
Ai
Reunions with a Ghost 3
Riot Act, April 29, 1992 5
Charisma 7
Anne Barngrover
Flashback 9
Jim Behrle
I Move the Clocks Forward Every Weekend
10
Thank You for your Concern 11
Elana Bell
Elegy
for a Mother, Still Living 13
Frank Bidart
For the Twentieth Century 14
Nancy Botkin
Parts That Were Once Whole 15
Grief 16
Autumn Sky 17
Rachel Linnea Brown
To Ply 18
Tina Chang
Lencois 19
Paula Cisewski
To a Margin 20
Kevin Clark
Hands Off 22
Wynn Cooper
My Idea 24
Cynthia Cruz
Taxonomy 25
Death Star 26
California 27
Weston Cutter
eating the fake everything 29
The Visible World 30
Ben Fama
Odalisque 32
Anthony Frame
How to Write a Poem in Toledo, Ohio 34
Love and armed robbery 36
Jessi Lee Gaylord
I Don’t Want To Watch Deadwood With You
Anymore 38
Jessie Gaynor
A Time Unlike 40
Your New Girlfriend is a Cow 41
Amy Gerstler
Pressured Speech 42
Louise Gluck
Vespers 44
Circe’s Power 45
Forrest Hamer
My Personal Epistemology 46
The Point of the Story 47
Terrance Hayes
The Blue Castro 48
Liberty Heise
Polar Bear’s fur isn’t white 50
There is a dent in my tooth 52
Bob Hicock
Limited Resources 54
Suggested Modifications 56
Love and armed robbery 58
Edward Hirsch
Man on a Fire Escape 60
Days of 1968 62
Anne Cecelia Holmes
Poem For What I’m Not Allowed 63
In Home Movies We Are Always Waving 65
At Last An Effigy Shaped Like Oklahoma 66
Emily Hunt
Symbols 67
I Remember the Area 68
John James
It Looped Back Over The Pacific 69
Lesley Jenike
Had I Been Any God of Power 70
Denis
Johnson
Drink 71
Our Sadness 72
Crow 73
Anna
Journey
Evacuated 74
Blue Honey 76
Blue Honey (2) 78
Jane
Kenyon
Let Evening Come 80
Otherwise 81
Jaimee
Kuperman
Somebody Else’s Funeral 82
David Dodd Lee
Duplicate Trigger 83
Village after This One 84
No Good 85
Anna Lei
Technology 86
I tried to Carpe Diem, but I failed.
Miserably. 87
Matthew Lippman
The Big And The Small Of It 89
Sandy Longhorn
Health, an Expanded Definition 90
Louise Mathias
Subterranean 91
Catastrophic Theories 92
Equinox 93
J.D. McClatchy
What They Left Behind 94
Pibroch 95
Clayton T. Michaels
Hexagram 96
Tantric 98
Without Edges 99
Donna Munro
There’s Nothing So Bad Living Can’t Fix 100
Nicole Stellon O’Donnell
The Bossy e Meets His Match 101
Dzvinia Orlowsky
Who Forgives Whom 103
Allan Peterson
What the Usual has Become 105
Evolution 106
Running Out 107
Robert Pinsky
Samurai Song 108
Nate Pritts
The Existing Curriculum is Incoherent 109
Another Last Letter To You 111
Kevin Prufer
Air Disaster Over Kansas 113
David Rivard
Delightful Soup 114
Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers
Smokehouse Where The Heart Should Be 116
Gary Sange
Kissing Hands 118
Oscar Schwartz
To All Gone To Look For 120
Herbert Scott
And the Sleet Cometh Down 122
Sleeping Woman 123
The Most Terrible and Beautiful Thing 125
Charles Simic
The Devils 126
Cameo Appearance 127
Gregory Sheryl
The Haunts 128
It Was The Lungs 129
Elizabeth Skurnick
Angel Eyes 130
Nicole Steinberg
I Was a Twenty-Something Savage 131
Skaidrite Stelzer
Remembering Roundness 132
James Tate
Dream On 134
Bounden Duty 136
Carleen Tibbets
Cognizance 138
Notes on a Problem 139
Gestation 140
Chase Twichell
A Seduction 141
Skeleton 143
My Listener 144
Robert Vandermolen
Time 146
Turning 50 148
G.C. Waldrep
Diving Bell 149
Joshua Ware
Your Body Devours Itself 150
A Completely Regular Street 151
Alli Warren
Protect Me from What I Want 152
C.K. Williams
Money 154
C. Dale Young
Epistle, Twenty Years Too Late 155
