Poems

Berket and the Stars A day on the boulevards chosen out of ten years of student poverty! One best day out of ten good ones. Berket […]

Between Walls the back wings of the hospital where nothing will grow lie cinders In which shine the broken pieces of a green bottle

Blizzard Snow falls: years of anger following hours that float idly down — the blizzard drifts its weight deeper and deeper for three days or sixty […]

Blueflags I stopped the car to let the children down where the streets end in the sun at the marsh edge and the reeds begin and […]

Complaint They call me and I go. It is a frozen road past midnight, a dust of snow caught in the rigid wheeltracks. The door opens. […]

Complete Destruction It was an icy day. We buried the cat, then took her box and set fire to it in the back yard. Those fleas […]

Daisy The dayseye hugging the earth in August, ha! Spring is gone down in purple, weeds stand high in the corn, the rainbeaten furrow is clotted […]

Danse Russe If I when my wife is sleeping and the baby and Kathleen are sleeping and the sun is a flame-white disc in silken mists […]

Dawn Ecstatic bird songs pound the hollow vastness of the sky with metallic clinkings– beating color up into it at a far edge,–beating it, beating it […]

Dedication for a Plot of Ground This plot of ground facing the waters of this inlet is dedicated to the living presence of Emily Dickinson Wellcome […]