Speaking for Themselves

A sampling of poems from recently published collections.

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Sunday, April 29, 2007

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KEY BRIDGEBy Ken Rumble Carolina Wren. 71 pp. Paperback, $14.95

25.december.2000

Portuguese widows

on 18th in

Adams Morgan

knit their own dark

shawls. Let me spin you

a yarn

I say

there's only one

story:

yours.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCEBy Eavan Boland Norton. 83 pp. $23.95

from Falling Asleep to the Sound of Rain

It is the gift of sleep or the approach to sleep,


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