Poems

The City Limits When you consider the radiance, that it does not withhold itself but pours its abundance without selection into every nook and cranny not […]

The Confirmers The saints are gathering at the real places, trying tough skin on sharp conscience, endurance in the hot spots- searching out to define, come […]

Viable Motion’s the dead giveaway, eye catcher, the revealing risk: the caterpillar sulls on the hot macadam but then, risking, ripples to the bush: the cricket, […]

Optimism At last there’ll dawn the last of the long year, Of the long year that seemed to dream no end, Whose every dawn but turned […]

Any Man Speaks I, after difficult entry through my mother’s blood And stumbling childhood (hitting my head against the world); I, intricate, easily unshipped, untracked, unaligned; […]

Attack On The Ad-Man This trumpeter of nothingness, employed To keep our reason dull and null and void. This man of wind and froth and flux […]

Bells, Pool And Sleep Bells overbrim with sound And spread from cupolas Out through the shaking air Endless unbreaking circles Cool and clear as water. A […]

Betrayal If a man says half himself in the light, adroit Way a tune shakes into equilibrium, Or approximates to a note that never comes: Says […]

Birch Tree The birch tree in winter Leaning over the secret pool Is Narcissus in love With the slight white branches, The slim trunk, In the […]

Black On Black Serrations of chimneys Stone-black perforate Velvet-black dark. A tree coils in core of darkness. My swinging Hands Incise the night. A man slips […]