In a Grove
Kurosawa was a moralist.
It is said he took and gently bent
Akutagawa’s grove.
Akutagawa was trying to show
us something. It is said he wore
cold wet gloves when he wrote.
Poet Michael Earl Craig grew up in Dayton, Ohio, and was educated at Ohio Wesleyan University, the University of Montana, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Influenced by artists as diverse as Werner Herzog, Julio Cortázar, Lou Reed, and James Tate, Craig’s poems...