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| Wayne Cox holds the Ph.D. in American literature from the University of South Carolina. He teaches creative writing and literature at Anderson College, where he occupies the Daniel Endowed Chair of English. His work has appeared in such publications as Poetry, Shenandoah, Chelsea, Strand, and Southern Humanities Review. With his wife, Lourdes Manyé, he published Vacation Notebook (Lang, 1996), a translation of Quadern de Vacances, by the Catalan poet Miquel Martí i Pol. Wayne Cox lives in Greenville, South Carolina, with his wife. They have a daughter, Marina. |
| Afterwards The carpet and the footprints leading Nowhere. The air, and each familiar Object, from the dried flowers to the ripe Ceramic fruit, caught in the tension of dust. Only the clock moves, grimly unwinding. The cushioned chair still holds an absent form. On the table, loose skeins of yarn And the first bright furrows of an afghan, Rigid as the lines of an ocean shell. And at night, bursting through the moon's still rays, A car's headlights occasionally span The far wall through open curtains, Spinning the shadows out of furniture Like a day, a life, gone suddenly by. *********Wayne Cox Copyright 2000 |