Harry Ploughman
After Gerard Manley Hopkins With a fountain’s shining shot furls, palm and heel of hand flit, muscle- skin fraps, fanted speed; erumpent swing, and here arm falcated; eolian; feet-base edaphic, each bend a camber: wait, carmine and cerise: wait, what breath of body becomes chaff, skin, abraded toward soil-on-bone.
--Nick Ripatrazone
Nick Ripatrazone lives with his wife in New Jersey. His recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, The Saint Ann’s Review, Sou’wester, The Los Angeles Review, and The New York Quarterly. A staff writer for Luna Park Review, he is pursuing an MFA from Rutgers University.
