After Snow
After Snow I’m the first car after the sander. In my headlights, the cinnamon swirls of fresh sand are intact. What dial did I turn to get here, the road a bolt of cloth unfurling…
Chase Twichell
Chase Twichell is a poet whose most recent book of poetry is The Snow Watcher (Ontario Review Press). In 1999 she left her teaching position at Princeton University to start Ausable Press, which publishes contemporary poetry.
Invisible Fence
Invisible Fence Every moment’s a splitting twig,a wind that blows the smoke west then blows it east. Asleep? Awake? A thousand silver minnows of distraction!And sleep, my Lethe and opium. Once in a while I catch…
Fox Bones
Fox Bones To write a poem is to study oneself. To strip away all but the sinews, and then the sinews. A jawbone stuck out of the dirt— young fox with still-perfect teeth. I keep in…
About a poem: “Ochre and Blue” by Chase Twichell
The Fall 2011 issue of Tricycle features a poem by Chase Twichell, “Ochre and Blue.” Beneath the poem is commentary from Twichell on how the poem came to be. Beneath the commentary is a button, push…
CultureMagazine | Parting Words
Ochre and Blue
Waking to ochre birch leaves sinking in the blue undersea of dawn, I swim in the same currents, needing nothing. Later I’ll forget this, and mourn the end of autumn. What’s left to be said about…
No Words
Zen poetry is everything you might expect it to be, and less. An interview with Seido Ray Ronci.
Second Innocence: With Basho at Sesshin
Chase Twichell finds a new and hard-won freedom.
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