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- 4:17 am at allpoetry
It recurs. The town mounts a steep hill, houses on stilts
plastered to clifftops. The views must be tremendous, - Dot at allpoetry
"Dot?"
- Death By Coyote at allpoetry
A flick of the head,
a neck snaps - Outdoor School Day Two: Where’s a poem? at allpoetry
A poem curls in the spine of a boy who’s finally shut up, sitting in the dirt, bent over his clipboard. - Outdoor School Day One: Setting Out at allpoetry
I can’t explain the butterflies, worries about asking kids to find poems - My New Purse and Rice for Free at allpoetry
I have a zippered pouch that turns into a daypack - A Dream, at Dawn, when Dew at allpoetry
Oh. I'm supposed to find a poem - Ceux qui partent pour partir at allpoetry
Lover of death, and a dark woman, lured by the exotic, - The Rape of Lucretia at allpoetry
O fair Lucretia, if your soul is still among the angels, gazing down at will - ghazal 3 at allpoetry
He refuses to kill, so the black flies eat him alive. - ghazal 2 at allpoetry
The meal cooked in spite sours the stovetop. - ghazal at allpoetry
In every list of praise the omitted hides her hurt. - Joe (Death 2) at allpoetry
Joe tees off Sunday morning rainbow dew splatter - Images II at allpoetry
. - Death 3: Jai & Robert at allpoetry
Three poems hit the bricks tonight splattered the sidewalk from passing cars - We Crash Airplanes Too at allpoetry
in our small way into tall - Saturday Morning Southward at allpoetry
Canada Geese arrow south from the mountains to the sound - - Exhale at allpoetry
and be rid of it: / :The maps and the planning books / the B&B in the historic house / or the windswept one / where the light flashes all night / a slow-mo old movie - Fur at allpoetry
~ for Diane Arbus and Howard Nemerov, siblings - / We imagine genetic fascination / with hairy things / privileged children of furriers / drawn to shit and deformity / - Going to a Concert and Taking a Poet’s Advice to Notice Six Things Every Day at allpoetry
How a heron glanced / low over the birch, / its feet dangling north. / How every light turned amber / too soon. / How the heads of hemlocks curled / down towards kids playing baseball - Lost at allpoetry
Life rained in torrents / between the shoeless grass out front / and the mint-green tastelessness of the bedroom shag, / hung her on a splintered hinge / the clunk and jingle of a chunky treble cle - Still Life With Chilies at allpoetry
Last summer’s garden chilies / jumble in the bowl with glossy jalapenos / from the Broadway Produce Market. / My tongue swims in the green / of Granny Smiths. / I need a cup of tea. - Poem About Writing a Poem About a Poem About a Poem at allpoetry
~ after Kowit, after Vikatanitamba / The poet writes of lust, hints but does not mention / certain touches. The reader writes the details, / - Man Dies, Sheep Bleat, Dog Dances at allpoetry
O’Malley died some twenty years ago / but when you ask about him in the pub / everybody knows you mean old Michael Joe / as if he’d just now finished reciting Yeats / over a pint of Guinness. - Things I Have Killed at allpoetry
/ / / / / Slugs, in salt or squished between toes. / Flies, crushed with a pink swatter. / Mosquitos, on sunburnt skin, spilling their red cargo. / Neon tetras, jewels bleached pale in the aquarium. / R - Why So Many Poems Have Been Written From Trains at allpoetry
1. Exterior
Because the novel’s flat - Illumination at allpoetry
You have to be good.
You have to see the blood - Rules for Seeking Pearls (a sign for the hard of seeing) at allpoetry
- Spaghetti at allpoetry
When father invites the relatives to feast
on his day-long spaghetti, and - King's Pond at allpoetry
At King’s Pond in February
duckings leave vee-wakes, - Le train at allpoetry
Across Normandy a faster clip
than horses, the click of train on rails, - The Visitor at allpoetry
Lay your bundle by the door - I'll Take Plum at allpoetry
Colours are words' little sisters...
...--Which one will you make yours? - Peggy's Passing (Part 3) at storywrite
April 19 2005 5:30 am
- Peggy's Passing (Part 2) at storywrite
April 16 2005 1:30 pm Royal Jubilee Hospital
