Poems

Moonrise The branches, jointed, pointing up and out, shine out like brass. Upon the heavy lip of earth the dog at moments is possessed and screams: […]

One Ran Before I could tell Of silence where One ran before Himself and fell Into silence Yet more fair. And this were more A thing […]

Song Where I walk out to meet you on the cloth of burning fields the goldfinches leap up about my feet like angry dandelions quiver like […]

Sonnet to the Moon Now every leaf, though colorless, burns bright With disembodied and celestial light, And drops without a movement or a sound A pillar […]

The Empty Hills The grandeur of deep afternoons, The pomp of haze on marble hills, Where every white-walled villa swoons Through violence that heat fulfills, Pass […]

The Precision God spoke once in the dark: dead sound in the dead silence. I turned in my sleep. I slept and sank away. Then breath […]

To the Holy Spirit Immeasurable haze: The desert valley spreads Up golden river-beds As if in other days. Trees rise and thin away, And past the […]

Two Songs of Advent I On the desert, between pale mountains, out cries — Far whispers creeping through an ancient shell. II Coyote, on delicate mocking […]

Where my sight goes Who knows Where my sight goes, What your sight shows— Where the peachtree blows? The frogs sing Of everything And children run […]

Love Is An Anguish, A Question Love is an anguish, a question, a luminous doubt suspended; it is a desire to know the whole of you […]