Category Archives: Michelle Brittan Rosado

Michelle Brittan Rosado Every Window Filled with Trees I climb the wooden staircase to the backhouse built above the garages and I’m here at the level of the treetops thinking of Dickinson’s line about the gambrels of the sky and then remember my ancestors walked up carved logs to longhouses on stilts to outlast the floods—and isn’t it always this way, some memory deep in my bloodline at the same time as an intimation of the western canon,myContinue reading “Michelle Brittan Rosado – Every Window Filled with Trees“

Michelle Brittan Rosado Condition of Rental Property Checklist The metal-framed windows keep sliding down in the heat, so we prop them up with painters’ sticks left behindby the workers after the last tenants moved away. It’s our first apartment and we’re going to make this work, holding up every window  for any breeze, though mostly catching the elderlyContinue reading “Michelle Brittan Rosado – Condition of Rental Property Checklist“

Michelle Brittan Rosado Editor’s note: This poem is best viewed on the full width of a desktop or laptop screen. Poem in the Form of a Seating Chart for an Airbus A380 When the takeoff      is over and the city of San Francisco      doesn’t slide off the tilting side of     Continue reading “Michelle Brittan Rosado – Poem in the Form of a Seating Chart for an Airbus A380”

Michelle Brittan Rosado Childhood Bedroom Window, 1980s in Daly City I look each night for the symmetrical arrangement of red lights in the distance that someone had told me  was the Sutro Towerin San Francisco, the first of several cities I would pine for from the outside. Some nights,  the pinpoints disappear behind a layer of fog from the bay, andContinue reading “Michelle Brittan Rosado – Childhood Bedroom Window, 1980s“

Michelle Brittan Rosado Author’s note: The poems in this series all use the image of a window as their starting point, some in the title itself and others more peripherally. I’ve been thinking of this symbol a lot lately — as a portal for wonder in childhood, an aperture to others’ lives during the pandemic,Continue reading “Michelle Brittan Rosado – Window Scenes for Out-of-Town Visitors“