Arnold Johnston lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he was chairman of the English Department at Western Michigan University (1997-2007) and has now returned to teaching in the creative writing program.
This poem of mine, with allusions to The Wizard of Oz , appeared in the Summer 2009 issue of Phi Kappa Phi Forum. WHAT’S UNDERNEATH: AFTER UNTITLED WOOD AND FIRED-CERAMIC PIECE BY MARIA SCOTT Frail bars, sunk deep in stone tempered by fire That could reduce a wooden grid to ash Leaving just the bedrock. We never tire Of raising cages, walls; we twine and lash Our rickety ...
