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Michael Rutherglen

Michael Rutherglen
Michael Rutherglen is a founding editor of the Winter Anthology.

Whalefall

By Michael Rutherglen
Poetry•Vol. XXVII No. 2 (Summer 2014)

One thinks all day: the unresolved thought is as the whale of which one thinks as huge and blue and dead, which drifts all day obliquely down a gradient of blues, beryl to royal to naval to abyssal plain, borne hard upon by higher water, pressure as of consciousness upon the aching blank at the… [Read More]

Ping

By Michael Rutherglen
Poetry•Vol. XXVII No. 2 (Summer 2014)

Onomatopoesis of the distance between us, alto echo of telos achieved, chimed reflection received in milliseconds, milli– meters of fiber by the millions. I loose this pulse, its volts, and wait— snowshine through the windows, shadows of hexadecimal flakes— as in the wires it makes and mirrors from here its way here again to show… [Read More]

Summer in Symmetry

By Michael Rutherglen
Poetry•Vol. XXVII No. 2 (Summer 2014)

Sweat rorschached my shirtfront. Serenity said, everything that happens to me happens to me twice. One contrail bisected the sky.

Foreigner

By Michael Rutherglen
Poetry•Vol. XXVI No. 2 (Summer 2013)

From the mountain ridge, lights appear radiant, the sea indistinguishable from the sky at night, which must be the end of the world, a dark no one can cross. Wordless, you are the finger pointing to the highest branch, a plate pushed away, though the fruit is sweet and soft. Men spill from the pier… [Read More]

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