Seafarers ("I and my mother...")
We are both so full of it, I and my mother. Full to the point of bursting, As a sparking kiln. Foolish in a poignant way As we weigh and...
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"We cannot happenstance hope..."
We cannot happenstance hope And redemption will not be controlled; A tether on perilous slopes, That will not fray as it grows old And...
Baggage Claim
Lines — Like I can’t draw them straight, People collapse into pretend anarchy. But we stay behind the yellow line. Here, I have no option...
Brazos de Rocas
No flat-footed gait here For misshapen stones have congregated Or been placed, and feathered And weathered away into tables and craters...
Bulbs
Many journalists, and not many friends Around the encumbered tomb Around the brilliant panoply Beneath the dreadful moon Many shattered...
Gold
golden copper leaves scuttle round our feet enter, enter this vault of fall walk with me down its glittering hall its buttresses are...
The Searcher
Here the searcher’s tale: A lonesome tragedy Of the journey that ensues If one is sent, Most confident, Into a world that’s free. A...
Art (That Was His Name)
His glasses focused already small eyes into vivid blue streams of energy they took every decrepit muscle and decaying joint and exploded...
The Savannah Cools At Night
Crisp, stiffer than you’d like, the ocean roars at night. See, lions watch, eyes alit, and you’ve been caught When you shouldn’t be...
Regret (Young)
In truth, I said “I love you.” Didn’t lie; Hidden, I Caught upon a fear, too. In fact, you were Beyond me. Simple thing: I had no ringing...
[some starlings on a telephone wire]
Wet-winged water wild thing wild whilst wire-flying, wires and what true omen do you bring today? Flock, wild wonderment, drop-like...
Entire Lives Are Spent Dreaming
Entire lives are spent Dreaming instead of doing Looking instead of reaching Sitting instead of moving Taking instead of teaching I hope...
"Damn the imagined night..."
Damn the imagined night— A perilous guide indeed, Laden high with smoke And broken mirrors and encrusted dreams. Curse the blissful smog!...
Friendship
Friends, the few but fearless, Know me not by name. By speech both wise and careless, Know me just the same. By memories keen of nervous...
thinktwice
The one-thought world Rumbling generally Unimpugnable, obvious Thing to think twice Do consider, friend Every divergent from All split...
"Life is made of both..."
Life is made of both: The rigorous, the slow And in seven woven days We are complete. All men have their flourishes And some even their...
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