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 Contents | March 2001 In This Issue (Contributors) Also by Stephen Sandy: The Change (1997) My Place (1996) Earth Day Story (1991) |
The Atlantic Monthly | March 2001
Worn Tool
by Stephen Sandy .....  Hear Stephen Sandy read this poem (in RealAudio)How odd to hold this implement of a lapsed time whose dated use clings still in the blunt blade and the gleaming grip—Celtic chimera brave lion head softened by hands. Soon even you will be forgotten, my letter opener, bronze or brass! No one will know why such a dull stub of a blade found such a fanciful handle, as if the one who gripped it fought with ghosts. Copyright © 2001 by The Atlantic Monthly Company. All rights reserved. The Atlantic Monthly; March 2001; Worn Tool - 01.03; Volume 287, No. 3; page 58. |
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