Hook for the Masterpiece and Other Poems

By Patricia Nelson Hook for the Masterpiece  The weight of line and shade still hangs.   A frame holds the glow they made of it:  The kingdom of smoking fuels,  the art with its light-craving dervish.     Women made of shadow and the world.   Brown rats that squeaked and bit them.   Crowns of dead metal stamens. … Continue reading Hook for the Masterpiece and Other Poems