Poems

Before I Knocked Before I knocked and flesh let enter, With liquid hands tapped on the womb, I who was as shapeless as the water That […]

Clown in the Moon My tears are like the quiet drift Of petals from some magic rose; And all my grief flows from the rift Of […]

Deaths And Entrances On almost the incendiary eve Of several near deaths, When one at the great least of your best loved And always known must […]

Do not go gentle into that good night Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; […]

Ears In The Turrets Hear Ears in the turrets hear Hands grumble on the door, Eyes in the gables see The fingers at the locks. Shall […]

Elegy Too proud to die; broken and blind he died The darkest way, and did not turn away, A cold kind man brave in his narrow […]

Especially when the October wind Especially when the October wind With frosty fingers punishes my hair, Caught by the crabbing sun I walk on fire And […]

Fern Hill Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green, The night […]

Foster The Light Foster the light nor veil the manshaped moon, Nor weather winds that blow not down the bone, But strip the twelve-winded marrow from […]

From Love’s First Fever To Her Plague From love’s first fever to her plague, from the soft second And to the hollow minute of the womb, […]