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HYMN TO NECESSITY.(Poem)

With a chain saw and axe, we've spent a long Morning cutting up a sycamore the storm Brought down. For all twelve years we've lived here, ...
Nation, The, 12/24/01 by SANTOS, SHEROD · More from publication
A la recherche de la poesie Perdue

(Poetry and Translation) It seems that not too long ago, in that walled garden of a simpler time, there were certain assumptions about the...
American Poetry Review, The, 05/01/00 by Santos, Sherod · More from publication
Into the unknown to find the new: Baudelaire's voyage into the twenty-first century

The partial title of this essay, "Into the Unknown to Find the New, " is a rough translation of the closing line of Charles Baudelaire's landmark...
American Poetry Review, The, 07/01/95 by Santos, Sherod · More from publication
Married love

Dog days. A passing shower. Two grackles Scattering the birdbath birds. A reshuffled Breeze dealt off the crowns of the sycamore Trees behind the...
Southern Review, The, 03/22/93 by Sherod Santos · More from publication
Fire

The story of a woman who will leave a man. A man who thinks in metaphors. A woman Who thinks the reason she'll leave has less to do With him than...
Southern Review, The, 03/22/93 by Sherod Santos · More from publication
Portrait of a couple on an evening late in the 20th century. (poem)

Impatient for home, the after-work traffic fanning out along the wet streets, a jagged sound, like huge sheets of construction paper torn their...
Nation, The, 01/27/92 by Santos, Sherod · More from publication

The art of fiction. (poem)

THE ART OF FICTION It's the way each evening unfolds the same, The way the old men in shirtsleeves come out To play boules beneath the chestnut...
Nation, The, 02/14/87 by Santos, Sherod · More from publication
The children of paradise. (poem)

THE CHILDREN OF PARADISE As children we once made it up Unknowingly, the ritual, And the place forbidden Beyond the boundary...
Nation, The, 01/17/87 by Santos, Sherod · More from publication
To a young novitiate. (poem)

TO A YOUNG NOVITIATE for T.G. (1947-1974) For months the ancient text lay unillumined By the lamplight from your bedside table,...
Nation, The, 05/10/86 by Santos, Sherod · More from publication
The blinded ring-tail.

It was 1958 or 9, and I Was walking home along An old gravel footpath That cut through the woods Behind an animal hospital And past an open,...
Nation, The, 02/08/86 by Santos, Sherod · More from publication