Chord

Chord

<div><p><i>That art should once have been marked<br>with this delicacy: always only one<br>of each thing made, so that your poem<br>has its one life on the sheet<br>you have chosen for it, or the snapshot<br>of the birthday party, everything<br>in the room upended by the children's<br>jubilation, survives only<br>in the single defended piece of glass.</i></P><p><b>Rick Barot</b> was born in the Philippines, and received his MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He is the author of <i>The Darker Fall</i> and <i>Want</i> and teaches at the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.</div>