The Common Good

Fredrick Zydek

Articles by Fredrick Zydek

Praying Into the Equidistance
June 1, 2004
Letter to Tremblay About Death
January 1, 2000

Dear Gail: Each day I pray the muses

will bring me tasty nouns and surprising verbs,

but pain and death keep dancing through

my dreams wearing garments of grief.

Father Dancing
March 1, 1996


My father liked to dance alone.

Late at night, when he was sure

the rest of the house was sleeping,

he would turn on the old Philco

and dance with the broom.


One Summer,