Voices
Richard Schiffman is an environmental journalist, poet and author of two biographies. His poems have appeared in The New York Times, BBC Radio and on the “Writer’s Almanac” podcast. His first poetry collection, What the Dust Doesn't Know, was published in 2017 by Salmon Poetry.
Arts & CulturePoetry
A sudsy swill once, since restored
and clean enough for waterfowl to roost.
Arts & CulturePoetry
They blew in fast to the low slung tree hung fat
with beachball-orange fruitlets, a bickering gang of starlings--
little stars-- dining after their own fashion fastidiously,
preferring the mash fermenting on the grasses
to the firm fruits strung upon the leaf-bare branches.
They swilled their modest fill, before flying off on cue,
from one ripe paradise above the Westside Highway
Poetry
Smack in the center of this parade