Marian Aitches
teaches in the History Department at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Her first collection of poems, Fishing for Light, won the Wings
Appetizers—for Jack Myers, 1988
by Mark Cox What I’d pay to see, the man says, is a bull elephant fighting a rhinoceros, and reaching for the smothered nachos, adds, now that
Stars—for Jack Myers, 1984
by Mark Cox Last night, like a match tossed off onto the lawn, it bloomed and disappeared. I kept smoking. And my dog kept nosing the damp