Gary Margolis
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Letter to the editor: Snowbird
I don’t know whether to ride/ my mower or push my snow-blower./ Given what April brings to us.
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Letter to the editor: Sing, Etzuri — a poem with Ukrainian roots
Like you, I have a name behind/my name./Scratched inside my throat.
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Letter to the editor: Columns made point together
Gratitude to the editor for placing Karl Lindholm’s “Taming the Cornwall Bear” Clippings column next to Victor Nuovo’s “Does God Exist?” philosophical column in last Thursday’s edition. How…
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Poetry: Cases on campus
What you say you’ve been waiting for. A break from studying. A reprieve from your exams. An excuse from finishing your term papers. To go home. But not…
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Poetry: Call Richard Webb
Before the wind takes it. Before the voles make a home of it.Or a trunk-borer. Before the orioles weave one nest too many.Or later, in December, the snow…
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Poet’s corner: Where moonlight finds you
How Difficult is It? I wouldn’t have guessed you’d love this form. And take it back into a cell’s darkness. Even the super moon can’t reach you.…
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Poetry: Back to school
For Addison County Teachers and Staff Nothing like the principal seeing you again, after so many months, walking down our school’s stairs. Looking up and saying “You look…
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Poem For the Jamaican Apple Pickers
Taken for the pickers The apples are used to those men, their hands, their songs. Used to rolling down their arms into baskets. Into crates.…
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Poem: Returning to School, To Town
Returning to School, To Town Across the way, a new pod of tents behind the field house. And a gaggle of orange traffic cones. Set out by…
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Letter to the editor: Another incident shows white people’s privilege
The We of Rayshard Brooks Isn’t it a privilege to fall asleep in the front seat of your car, pass out, some nights, from a night…