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Earlier Life offers up no miracles, unfortunately, and needs assistance. —Weldon Kees, "ADistance from the Sea" Three years since cancer and I seem to live a smaller person than I wasbefore — Then: racked by darkness and desire, fear: whatever needs I could not meet. For years the baby crying in his crib and she I bore in blood and ecstasy seemed hooks to tear me limb from limb with suffering, theirs far worsethan mine, and at my hands. Who gave them over to my care must be unfit, a sadist human life can hardly understand and I, forever loosening skirt or bodice, or my mind, could only bend to scoop the baby from her bed or raise my ass or wit to yet comply with needs I had myself, or didn't, or dimly knew but learned to satisfy, then damp, and so to die. 91 ...

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