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Helen Ruggieri is the author of Glimmer Girls (Mayapple, 1999) and The Character for Women (Foothills, 2002), among other collections and memoirs.
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Published Fall 2006
 
Those Sunday Nights
On Sunday nights dread gathers
under the bones of my chest
filling the empty spaces with
clocks ticking, a copier running
diagnostics, a phone at the end
of the hall, a buzzing ballast ready
to go dark, a door closing softly.
On Sunday nights the dread
sings about all the hours to be
filtered before time comes back to me,
all the facts accumulating,
dripping under my finger pads
with a soft electronic click
and signs 'Sincerely yours.'
On Sunday nights I shine my shoes,
check the soles for holes,
press my shiny suit and pack a lunch.
I set the clock and my hair,
lay out clothes I'll wear.
Crawl in bed with dread
who always sleeps there Sunday nights. |
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MR BOOKS
Critics at Work
ed. Jeffrey J. Williams.
Critics at Work offers a guided tour through the central, sometimes confusing and frequently controversial developments in contemporary literary and cultural criticism. The tour guides, however, are not distant observers but have been primary participants in those developments, and they report on theory, cultural studies, the literary canon, the recent focus on race, sexuality, and other identities, the state of the univerisity, and the role of the intellectual. Throughout, they consider the not always easy negotiation of politics and culture.
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