Window with 4 Panes: Poems

by David Appelbaum

The ambiguity of snow

Dog wishes, buried
in squinty sun
may never sprout

deeper dreads down
under may deface
even terror's stun gun
before bright dawn

pours on white cloth
buffered over white
strain and shows no
blood on the collar—

but the dead ground,
bone's crypt, dazzles,
unwinds a drape to hide
a corpse stuffed in.

"Appelbaum, whom we must thank for his work at New Paltz's Codhill Press as well as for his poetry, acquits himself well, writing of big topics with a light hand using a spare, short line." -- Chronogram

78 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

David Applebaum is a professor of philosophy at State University of New York at New Platz.