Sunday, September 18th, 2011
“My Grandmother’s Cow” by Maya Jewell Zeller
Maya Jewell Zeller MY GRANDMOTHER’S COW My grandmother didn’t have a cow, but if she did, it would have been a Holstein, cross-bred with a Friesian, because good Marguerite herself was slim but sturdy and beautiful in black-and-white. And because she was Catholic, it would have been a dairy cow; it would have sustained her [...]
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Thursday, June 30th, 2011
BEASTS & VIOLINS by Caleb Barber
Review by Maya Jewell Zeller BEASTS & VIOLINS by Caleb Barber Red Hen Press P.O. Box 40820 Pasadena, CA 91114 ISBN-13 978-1-59709469-6 2010, 104 pp., $19.95 www.redhen.org In the effort of full disclosure I would like to say that Caleb Barber is dating my best friend. Okay, they’re more than dating—they live together. They even [...]
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Thursday, November 26th, 2009
“Why We Can’t Use Roundup On Our Lawn” by Maya Jewell Zeller
Maya Jewell Zeller WHY WE CAN’T USE ROUNDUP ON OUR LAWN 1. As a girl, the black-branched plums behind the far fence were mine because a giant row of nettle and snowberry blocked them from the cows. I’d lie in a crook where many limbs came together and move my tongue along the sticky tip [...]
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
“Amber” by Maya Jewell Zeller
Maya Jewell Zeller AMBER Because you tell me you want to strip at State Line, I tell you how a woman will always feel like a body folded around another body, the layered one she wants to slough off like a heavy shawl, furred skin lifted in alien winds, skeletal, petal-thin. Were you named for [...]
