Tag: F. Daniel Rzicznek

  • F. Daniel Rzicznek Poetry: “Hatchet”

    F. Daniel Rzicznek Poetry: “Hatchet”

    Came down from the hills to findthe thaw refrozen, ground even harderthan before, and this in late March: twist of smoke to the south,early star or two riding the blue. The half-tame one, chest-deep in snow,looked back at me, his face tilting asmemories pooled in my head: the time he stole a deer femur,huffing and…

  • Settlers, a poetry collection by F. Daniel Rzicznek, reviewed by Esteban Rodríguez

    Settlers, a poetry collection by F. Daniel Rzicznek, reviewed by Esteban Rodríguez

    In his latest collection, F. Daniel Rzicznek leads readers through a world ripe with abandonment and haunted by fragments of a past that are as mysterious as they are important, at least within the attempt to make meaning in the face of loss and desolation. Make no mistake, Settlers is full of life: fathers, dogs,…

  • Six Poems from Leafmold: F. Daniel Rzicznek

    Six Poems from Leafmold: F. Daniel Rzicznek

    The purpose of fishing is to get healthy. Why I dream and dream of oral thrush is beside any point. A gray-templed monk knelt and swept the colored sands away with one stroke. I could see a man dancing, bleeding, chanting beneath dimmed light and I immediately had a seizure and worst of all spilt…