Donald Hall’s recent books include Unpacking the Boxes: A Memoir of a Life in Poetry (2008) and White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946–2006. He lives in New Hampshire.
Pete Sullivan dropped by: “Your barn needs work, and so do I.” Pete had the eye To fix old boards with new And keep the handy knotholes through Which swallows flew. Pete raked and scraped away Seventy-year-old scraps of hay And found the sleigh That frisky Riley drew In nineteen-hundred-thirty-two When snow fell blue. Old cowbarns tilt awry When sills go punky, and that’s why Peter dropped by.… More »
The summer when I saw the Trylon and Perisphere, I sat on the farm porch with my Great-Uncle Luther who told me that when he was nine he watched the soldier boys walking back home from Virginia. … More »
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