Prodigal: Frost, Kafka, and the Enterprise of Family

“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” – Robert Frost, “The Death of the Hired Man”

Superposition: Clifton, Smith, and the Coexistence of Loss

“You were you, but now and then you’d change.” -Tracy K. Smith, “Field Guide”   My first reading of Lucille Clifton’s “Dialysis” is a memory cemented in my mind, as though a lighthouse keeping me from running aground. The waves grew more turbulent, and I imagined listless whispers repeating “[I]f our dead were here, they […]