Suburban Noel

– after Geoffrey Hill

Passing a new subdivision, late fall:
already the arms race of tall spruce,

elegant luminaria, as winner-take-all
light displays tart up the days’ values.

The nearby landfill will prove a windfall
for three or more wise lords of revenue.

YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE

Still Life, Still Sacred

Andreas Lombard

Renaissance painters would use life-sized wooden dolls called manichini to study how drapery folds on the human…

Letters

I am writing not to address any particular article, but rather to register my concern about the…

While We’re At It

R. R. Reno

Propaganda: misleading and biased portrayal of facts, often used to inculcate and reinforce an ideology or political…