Before being plagued by the Sphinx, Thebes was plagued by a fox. It was the swiftest little animal there was. It ran like a streak

I wasn’t there. How could I be? I was a virgin in wolf’s clothing, a bird above the sensual fray, with a thorn twig in

[singlepic=2,500,877,,right] above the median fencetop horizon we collect ourselves from a timeless evacuation vacillation and return you must search my mask for my eyes presence

D.G. Leahy refers to his work as “The Thinking Now Occurring” (which his students have come to refer to as “TNO”). This appellation is perhaps

To imagine the object of one’s attention attempting to sustain an independent view. When objects and the spaces that they occupy change places, what is

St. Lazaire Press Rhinebeck, New York A NIGHT OF THOUGHT by Charles Stein Copyright © 1988 by Charles Stein All rights reserved. Published by: St.

Provisional Measures gnomon press COPYRIGHT © 1966 BY CHARLES STEIN ——— Some of these poems have appeared in The Columbia Review, IO, gnomon, and Angel

1 The whole world in a mule cart pulling up the hill. Beneath the hill—Who? Pulling the hill up from the roots of it. Pegs

NOTES The thinking that goes in to a poem or that can be awakened as its “further life” —like the fuzzy temporal location of particles

The Sampo Two Greek words that specify the mythic complex associated with Hermes: κλεπτειν (kleptein): to thieve. But more primally: to be in a certain