Poems

Design The drop seeps whole from boulder-lichen or ledge moss and drops, joining, to trickle, run, fall, dash, sprawl in held deeps, to rush shallows, spill […]

Eyesight It was May before my attention came to spring and my word I said to the southern slopes I’ve missed it, it came and went […]

Gravelly Run I don’t know somehow it seems sufficient to see and hear whatever coming and going is, losing the self to the victory of stones […]

Hymn I know if I find you I will have to leave the earth and go on out over the sea marshes and the brant in […]

In Memoriam Mae Noblitt This is just a place: we go around, distanced, yearly in a star’s atmosphere, turning daily into and out of direct light […]

Poetics I look for the way things will turn out spiralling from a center, the shape things will take to come forth in so that the […]

Rivulose You think the ridge hills flowing, breaking with ups and downs will, though, building constancy into the black foreground for each sunset, hold on to […]

Rogue Elephant The reason to be autonomous is to stand there, a cleared instrument, ready to act, to search the moral realm and actual conditions for […]

Small Song The reeds give way to the wind and give the wind away.

Still I said I will find what is lowly and put the roots of my identity down there: each day I’ll wake up and find the […]