Page from Issue 25 TriQuarterly Number Twenty-five • Fall 1972 %J editor Charles Newman guest co-editor Mary Kinzie consulting editor Norman Thomas di Giovanni associate editor Elliott Anderson managing editor Suzanne Kurman art director Lawrence Levy ass ...

Page from Issue 25 Key to abbreviations A The Aleph and Other Stories 1933-1969, trans. Norman Thomas di Giovanni (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1970) DT Dreamtigers, trans. Mildred Boyer and Harold Morland (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1964) DBR Doctor B ...

Page 144 from Issue 25 The past tense THREE POEMS BY R. H. W. DILLARD 1. Rain (After the Spanish of Jorge Luis Borges) f The afternoon produces a rain. It also falls in the past. You hear it. You remember the day You first saw the color of a rose, Saw the ...

Page 148 from Issue 25 Like rent garments, Like the rotten temple wall: Cracked like dry skin, Dry dirt around the base Of the skull: Cracked like a caul, Like the sweet taste Of walnuts, of water, Cracked like parting waters, Like the scales of a new bud ...

Page 176 from Issue 25 Kindly shade of the trees, breeze rich with birds rocking the branches, my soul losing itself in other souls— only a wonder could undo their existence, a wonder not to be understood, however much its imagined recurrence taints our d ...