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Commonweal . August 15, 2008 1 Exposures Weren’t there signs of rain yesterday while heat wavered like water, didn’t the blue drought of sky enlarge white stacks on horizons have the...

Winter-Chill, and Other Excuses (March 2003)

Winter-Chill, and Other Excuses Admit it. You love the idleness and brawn of these red boulders, warming through early morning. You must learn to come and go, how to move from drifts you have...

Standing in Place in Yellowstone (January 2003)

Standing in Place in Yellowstone Through the steam of warm pools shapes recede... emerge in low sunlight, pastel at the edge of mist. Buffalo. They stand in shaggy non-chalance- browns and...

Garden Plot Near Woods The Wildnerness o f Common Days (July 1999)

Garden Plot Near Woods "Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet." Gerard Manley Hopkins It's been years since he bent with a hoe, or hosed creekwater onto his plantings. New vines burn...

Awaiting Results Turns of a Phrase (April 1999)

Awaiting Results The daymoon rising is an old oyster shelly some bluff against time. Nothing up close holds me, and its blanched shape hardens until only the body feels true, malignancies...

Meadow above Forest above Sea Rock (August 1997)

KIESLOWSKI ON THE MOUNTAINTOP Ten Commandments from the late Polish director Joseph Cunneen The death of Krzysztof Kieslowski in March 1996 was widely mourned. The Polish director had achieved...

South Slopes in Winter: The Rockies, after Years (February 1997)

Dixie Partridge South Slopes in Winter: The Rockies, after Years From this distance you need only accept with the shamefaced moon the silvered slums of white birch and aspen, emptied and...

This Burning (December 1996)

Dixie Partridge This Burning Brnss light of a winter sun hits you through glass, fades like candle-shaped sound from retreating bugles. Sky through cirrus and birch limbs dissolves apricot to...

Retrieval/From the Shallows (September 1996)

Poems Dixie Partridge Retrieval (after my Bister's poems) In the iced sky, I see the child milk-whiteness of your skin, and hold my eyes to the receding form of the plane you leave on, as we...

Early Memory Pilgrimage (November 1995)

Poems Dixie Partridge Early Memory Salt River Range, Wyoming The pale netting of farmhouse curtains on my back-and outside the white gauze of a blizzard, wind like a gyre of undertow in a deep...

Poetry (November 1994)

Dixie Partridge November Turning (for my mother at 70) The thin language of air thickens intangibly as night rises from the ground at my feet.... We know the white sleep, the slurred speech...

Poetry (October 1994)

Dixie Partridge Out of the Dark The heads of mushrooms were small globes in grasses where they'd come overnight. What sudden promptings had brought them up whole? My son uncovered startled...

Poetry (January 1994)

22. Dixie Partridge Earthly Effects Again the birch trees practice dying, their emptied limbs paler than the winter dark. My daughter, returned to college, has left ajar of Ovaltine—like an...

Poetry (May 1993)

both by the state and by private institutions. But he would severely circumscribe the state's economic role. Novak sees the hostility to capitalism among intellectuals as related to what he...

Poetry (December 1991)

the savages in the hills, as Kate calls her more unbuttoned neighbors, celebrate with dance and drink and animal sacrifice. This allies the homage to the pagan god Lugh with the African...

Poetry (January 1991)

John Robert Quinn A Winter Day I look out the window: All I can see Is one drab sparrow, The bones of a tree. The cold is nearly Visible; It stings like a hornet. White as a skull The snow is...

Poetry (September 1990)

Dixie Partridge Field Pond We knew as the pond knew, our spot of earth given, any drought unfathomed. In the attic during rains we dressed in feathered hats and turned the cracked pages of books...

Poetry (February 1989)

Joan Rohr Myers Offertory Denied ordination by virtue of sex, I find it ironic that God sends me a consistory of cardinals red-robed and chattering. Within yards of my touch they rest on the...

Paschal, Justin

Pasquale, Frank

Past, Editors

Pastoral, Tanganyika

Pastore, John O.

Patch, Howard R.

Paton, Alan

Patriarche, Valance

Patricia

Patrick, Anne E.

Patrick, Jane Redmont, Marylee Mitcham, Mary C Segers, Emilie Griffin, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Anne E

Patrick, S Anne E