embrace for sanity’s (checkpoint!) sake (checkpoint!)
the creed of pluck for country and pluck for self
and die in the smithy of old gods’ desires...
They planned it. This, the goods your works produce.
Dennis Doherty is Coordinator of the Creative Writing Program and Chair of the Poetry Board at SUNY New Paltz in New York. He regards the sky, studies nature, and swaps stories with friends over beer in their hometown of Rosendale. Doherty’s essays, poems, and stories appear throughout the literary press. He is the author of The Bad Man, a volume of poetry.
Table of Contents
Dog
After the Flood: Holiday Inn
Dogs of Disaster
Human Resource: El Nino
Design at Mahmoudiya
Ave
The Language of Men
PM
Serve Them Right
The Gauntlet
Tremble
Extremes
Serendipity
House of Crumbs
Student Life
Furnished Rooms
The Name
Sympathectomy
In the Times when My Daughters Bring Me Offerings
Sprites
Infinity Bread and Butter
For Gwen: Evel Knieval’s Grandmother’s Green Rice at the Third Grade States Fair
Santa’s Ghazal
Mookie Wilson Beats the Tag
The Writer Regards His Fingers
Mephistopheles at the Poets’ Support Group
Toward
When Do Poems Get Written
Proximity
Ballistics
Day Lily
Chin
Postmodern Metaphysical Love Poem Moves Beyond Mere Description of the Beloved
