Poems

Remembering Mountain Men I put my foot in cold water and hold it there: early mornings they had to wade through broken ice to find the […]

Returned To Say When I face north a lost Cree on some new shore puts a moccasin down, rock in the light and noon for seeing, […]

Security Tomorrow will have an island. Before night I always find it. Then on to the next island. These places hidden in the day separate and […]

The Light By The Barn The light by the barn that shines all night pales at dawn when a little breeze comes. A little breeze comes […]

Thinking For Berky In the late night listening from bed I have joined the ambulance or the patrol screaming toward some drama, the kind of end […]

This Life With Kit, Age 7, at the Beach We would climb the highest dune, from there to gaze and come down: the ocean was performing; […]

Traveling Through The Dark Traveling through the dark I found a deer dead on the edge of the Wilson River road. It is usually best to […]

Waking at 3 a.m. Even in the cave of the night when you wake and are free and lonely, neglected by others, discarded, loved only by […]

When I Met My Muse I glanced at her and took my glasses off–they were still singing. They buzzed like a locust on the coffee table […]

The Bonnie White Flag Though we’re a band of prisoners, let each be firm and true, For noble souls and hearts of oak the foe can […]