by McKenzie | Apr 1, 2019 | Poem of the Day Series
HYMN TO A LANDLOCKED GOD Perhaps as a child you, too, sawthese stallion clouds & knew a skywith no blue was a sky tooreverent to be overlooked or understood. Perhaps heaven is the moon flag,not the moon, & you came to know praise as vertical only because the...
by McKenzie | Nov 23, 2014 | Poetry Collections, Reviews
Writing reviews can be extremely difficult. What’s ironic, though, is that I tend to find greater difficulty in writing a review about a book that I loved, rather than one I was unimpressed with. Perhaps this is because I tend to find some angle of merit in...
by McKenzie | Oct 20, 2014 | Reading
THERE’S SNOW IN THE WEST & there’s snow in the east & there’s snow in our beds icing the cabbage. Since you left me alone, the wasp nest swallowing the bulb in the porch light has gone leaden & each night the asphalt is honeycombed...