Poetic Medicine

By Maxine Kumin Afterward, the compromise. Bodies resume their boundaries These legs, for instance, mine. Your arms take you back in. ...

By Maxine Kumin How did we get to be old ladies— my grandmother's job—when we were the long-leggèd girls?                      — Hi...

By Maxine Kumin From a documentary on marsupials I learn that a pillowcase makes a fine substitute pouch for an orphaned kangaroo. I a...

is vertical: garden, pond, uphill pasture, run-in shed. Through pines, Pumpkin Ridge. Two switchbacks down church spire, spit of town...