Wednesday, October 30, 2013

GROWING AWAY

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GROWING AWAY It is the room we dread to open when we go back home because we have to. You can bunk in here, nothing ...
Tuesday, October 29, 2013

GOING BACK THERE

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GOING BACK THERE There, not very far from here, is a clear way of pointing it out, if you were from there . But where is it? The...
Saturday, October 26, 2013

A TWILIGHT BOULEVARD

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    A TWILIGHT BOULEVARD Why can’t a man be like a tree? In smaller terms, why can’t a man be like a leaf, or maybe a flower? I...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

SETTING HER FREE

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    SETTING HER FREE    (For Felix and Joanna, Engaged) It is the way of beauty and of virtue you require, the canon forgotten...

EMPTY VESSELS

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    EMPTY VESSELS By the time I fill up to the brim, I‘d have coughed up sediments Of crushed stones, jagged pebbles And the cr...
Wednesday, October 23, 2013

HIS PETER PRINCIPLE

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      HIS PETER PRINCIPLE    The last ghost town was the one I left when I grew up—strange requirement to abscond when one is ...
Saturday, October 19, 2013

THE LADY ON THE RUBBLE

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      THE LADY ON THE RUBBLE    Is it the pell-mell debris that lingers as this dread quietly whimpered now as end times, pu...
Thursday, October 17, 2013

A HAMMOCK SONG

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  A HAMMOCK SONG (For Julian Ashley+)   It is the Sea eats limb so life (so love)/ may not to its eternal wanting finish/ what i...
Monday, October 14, 2013

MARIE AMONG THE LEAVES

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  MARIE AMONG THE LEAVES   How her strut becomes her, a wee lass on the hill. Hands in little pockets like grandfathers walk,...
Sunday, October 13, 2013

THE WRATH OF DAYS DESCENDING

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    "Earth is the right place for love" says the late Nobel laureate Robert Frost in one of his poems. Is it? With all...