Poems

Across Kansas My family slept those level miles but like a bell rung deep till dawn I drove down an aisle of sound, nothing real but […]

Allegiances It is time for all the heroes to go home if they have any, time for all of us common ones to locate ourselves by […]

Ask Me Some time when the river is ice ask me mistakes I have made. Ask me whether what I have done is my life. Others […]

Atavism 1 Sometimes in the open you look up where birds go by, or just nothing, and wait. A dim feeling comes you were like this […]

For My Young Friends Who Are Afraid There is a country to cross you will find in the corner of your eye, in the quick slip […]

Graydigger’s Home Paw marks near one burrow show Graydigger at home, I bend low, from down there swivel my head, grasstop level–the world goes on forever, […]

Just Thinking Got up on a cool morning. Leaned out a window. No cloud, no wind. Air that flowers held for awhile. Some dove somewhere. Been […]

Lit Instructor Day after day up there beating my wings with all the softness truth requires I feel them shrug whenever I pause: they class my […]

Notice What This Poem Is Not Doing The light along the hills in the morning comes down slowly, naming the trees white, then coasting the ground […]

Objector In line at lunch I cross my fork and spoon to ward off complicity–the ordered life our leaders have offered us. Thin as a knife, […]