Here I stand, holding in my outstretched hand this delicate balance, surrounded by a constellation of meaningful objects, symbols begging for an easy moral: gold coins and pearls, a mirror, blue cloth, just over my shoulder a painting of Christ’s judgment lit up by a shock of light through the window. But my attention rests […]
Evan Gurney
Evan Gurney is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina Asheville. His poems and essays have appeared recently or are forthcoming in Contrary, New Ohio Review, storySouth, Tar River Poetry, Whale Road Review, and elsewhere.