I Reason, Earth is Short #403 (Franklin Edition) I reason, Earth is short – And Anguish – absolute – And many hurt, But, what of that? I reason, we could […]

Belief The floorboards creak overhead, heavy with stars. The sound makes you think of the dead, as though they’re closer than you knew: like the doubled s in essence, an […]

Sorrow is good; Tears are good. But too much Grief erodes. What if all The soft soil Washes away And only hard Furrows remain? Then what? Then what can grow […]

  Suspended I had grasped God’s garment in the void But my hand slipped On the rich silk of it. The ‘everlasting arms’ my sister loved to remember Must have […]

from After Ikkyu – 3 – I’ve wasted too much moonlight. Breast beating. I’ll waste no more moonlight, the moon bullied by clouds drifts west in her imponderable arc, snared […]

Zona My work piles up, I falter with disease. Time rushes toward me – it has no brakes. Still, the radishes are good this year. Run them through butter, add […]

Note to self: remember What Emerson said of Thoreau— That he loved the low In nature: Muskrats And crickets, suckers And frogs. Not stars. Songs of the carnal, Songs of […]

Walking on the Shore in Late August I look out over the muddy lake. All at once I see a fin rise, what alertness! All my brain power pours toward […]

The Lost War The saved were all ingratitude, The lost would not lie down: Reborn, their sacred rage renewed, They razed the fallen town. And in the graveyard made their […]

The White Box In the white box you keep hidden away a white salamander waits with a flame in his small hands. How bright the fire! How long his breath […]