Summer 2004

Summer 2004

William Heyen SPRING POEM ROETHKE SAGINAW 2002 You of the grave’s greenhouse, lost son writ in the roots & tendrils of Michigan, you of selvers, stem-smuts, Prussian roses - when I ascended Papa’s steps into your boyhood home they were smothered in pollen, & last night, first visitor in your high brass bed, I dreamed that those acres within crazed panes still existed, somewhere, I could breathe them within such Time as for a few moments seemed a delirium of blossom.   William Heyen's most recent books of poetry are Shoah Train (Etruscan Press) and The Rope (MAMMOTH Books). Carnegie-Mellon will re-issue his first book, Depth of Field (LSU Press, 1970), in its Classic Contemporaries Series this year, and MAMMOTH will publish Home: Autobiographies, etc., a book of essays. He lives in Brockport, New York

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