Properties of Place
By dislocating sense, body and mind
One leaves familiar grass, stone, air behind
And travels half a world away, to find
The irreducible properties of place:
That air is air, stone, stone, and grass, mere grass.
About the author
Paul Christian Stevens has boated down the Chao Phraya River in Thailand, supped on shark's fin in Hong Kong, drunk ale in England, breakfasted…
Read the full bioIssue 07 · November 2009
Table of contents
- From the editors
- Poetry
- This Map
- South Africa
- My Friends, the Bees
- Properties of Place
- A Song for Departures
- Senora Filo’s Washing Machine
- The Lean Season
- Two poems by MaryAnn Franta Moenck
- Allensworth, California
- At a Poetry Reading in the Swiss Alps, Joachim Sartorius Speaks of Tunis
- Any Ghost Town West of Omaha
- Touring Shenandoah with My Husband
- Postcard Prose
- Travel Notes
