Judy Pushing, Pushing

by Ward Kelley

Originally published on January 1, 1999

You were driven, you know (why, oh why, can’t I) and never did locate the correct way out, or proper note to score the flight all the way, all the way. There was something pushing, pushing, from within your being, while your fame and marriages and suicides propelled you through all our decades like a [...]

Sylvia Pounding Poems

by Ward Kelley

Originally published on December 1, 1998

Poems pounded down like thumping hooves, staccato oak leaves, slapped paper, the all-importance of the words a bond, a liturgy sticking the nuance of self to your soil . . . even though you were never meant to be here for long, for long. You knew this by the way the poems pounded down like [...]