From this Issue
Poem
From the magazine:On the Eve of a Birthday
On the Eve of a Birthday
As my Scotch, spared the water, blondly sloshes
About its tumbler, and gay manic flame
Is snapping in the fireplace, I grow youthful:
I realize that calendars aren’t truthful
And that for all of my grand unsuccesses
External causes are to blame.
And if at present...
About its tumbler, and gay manic flame
Is snapping in the fireplace, I grow youthful:
I realize that calendars aren’t truthful
And that for all of my grand unsuccesses
External causes are to blame.
And if at present...

Table of Contents
- John Ciardi
- Lucien Stryk
- Timothy Steele
- Kathryn Stripling Byer
- Vern Rutsala
- Susan Ludvigson
- Albert Goldbarth
Comment
- Samuel French Morse
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