| Date |
Title |
Content |
| 08/30/2010 |
Heirloom Tomatoes |
small things
shared, just
a phrase,... |
| 08/10/2010 |
An Inviting Abyss |
Close to the edges where I walk, ... |
| 07/21/2010 |
White Amaryllis |
for Lilith
So... |
| 06/26/2010 |
Her Rainy Day Legs |
Love the furious sea and field green adagios... |
| 06/16/2010 |
Not Before |
Not before I notice
the peppery dusk
do... |
| 05/11/2010 |
Antipodal |
See you’ve painted me into a corner
But... |
| 04/29/2010 |
After Sex |
First a cascade of changing hues
the way... |
| 04/19/2010 |
Portraits: She Who Cannot Be Dissected |
Her face flies apart
when you look,... |
| 04/15/2010 |
MoonStone Self Portrait |
My religion was a stone in the... |
| 04/06/2010 |
Littoral Zone |
The final star switches off
and day... |
| 04/19/2009 |
haiku |
Dead stars keep sending
to us who live... |
| 04/17/2009 |
Why We Write: A good-by poem |
An hour before dusk, Friday, mid... |
| 03/31/2009 |
Flood |
You would not believe
all this house has... |
| 03/07/2009 |
Beginning with Skin |
for Libby
I hold her with my mother,... |
| 02/16/2009 |
Maybe She Is |
Pretending her hands are clean,... |
| 02/04/2009 |
The Mouth, That Shaman |
Because the mouth moves us
from one... |
| 01/21/2009 |
Lincoln, January1863: Obama, January 2009 |
I think now of that other Illinois man,... |
| 12/12/2008 |
Crossing the Line |
There were too many light spirals.
Her... |
| 12/10/2008 |
Light Writing |
semen seeks
ovum wants
avum lilies... |
| 12/04/2008 |
Lambing Fields |
Soggy air. Mud covered boots.
Upper sky... |
| 12/02/2008 |
Glossary for Change |
Path that means passage
Lichen that means... |
| 11/10/2008 |
In the Room of What Happens |
My mother stopped sleeping
when my brothers... |
| 10/21/2008 |
Moving On |
From here to there
Shadows and... |
| 10/13/2008 |
Highway 84 |
The two mule deer stood still
as I... |
| 10/03/2008 |
Pink Salmon, Red Stones |
As the river swallows sunlight
I turn to... |
| 09/21/2008 |
Let the Dead Speak |
Drear northern journey
in this golden... |
| 09/16/2008 |
Home |
He didn’t know
he would be... |
| 09/09/2008 |
News of the World |
arrives the way words appear
with... |
| 09/02/2008 |
Politics |
The bicycle cab driver in Beijing pulls... |
| 08/26/2008 |
Canyon Houses |
It’s how the spirit needs the thing.
The... |
| 08/11/2008 |
This is My Body |
When I was a girl I left
my body to find... |
| 06/24/2008 |
Sweet Grass Basket |
I inherit the dead.
My body’s no longer a... |
| 06/20/2008 |
After Rain The World |
A haze unclothes the islands
the... |
| 06/02/2008 |
L.A. |
A kind of pilgrim looking for too much... |
| 05/26/2008 |
Grammar Lesson |
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| 05/15/2008 |
Bissextile |
Sitting at the bar by the eastern... |
| 05/08/2008 |
The Two of Us |
In all the farewells
in all the... |
| 04/29/2008 |
Birthing |
Tonight the gibbous moon
is the... |
| 04/15/2008 |
Becoming One |
Now I want to run
pulling my hair to... |
| 04/11/2008 |
Meter Poem |
Like an ancient Chinese coin
Round in a... |
| 03/31/2008 |
Waiting |
Moon full of yourself
help me love... |
| 03/28/2008 |
Spring on the Other Side |
Listen until she begins to sing:
Moon,... |
| 03/27/2008 |
Waiting For The Ice To Go Out |
Let life that grows small
become an egg... |
| 03/13/2008 |
Hoarding |
Onceness is an old beech in a new... |
| 03/10/2008 |
as in a French painting |
a mirror darkens or clarifies
gives off... |
| 03/03/2008 |
Roots: The Other Side |
Bones tuned, the body sings, See... |
| 02/17/2008 |
Because I see wild mustard |
Because I see wild mustard returning to... |
| 02/10/2008 |
Next to the Largeness, the Depths |
Ask the ones you pass this morning
how... |
| 02/04/2008 |
Wanting to fly |
The tongue in its cage
Wants new flight... |
| 01/28/2008 |
Strawberry Pickers |
(An article in the Los Angeles Times... |
| 01/16/2008 |
Because I see wild mustard |
Because I see wild mustard returning to the... |
| 01/09/2008 |
Waking: A response to Sun God |
For
|
| 12/31/2007 |
Captive |
I go back into memory because that’s... |
| 12/31/2007 |
Medieval Faces of Consolation: (a heard poem) |
To drink like a Capuchin is to drink... |
| 12/17/2007 |
River Cop: A West Seventh Poem in Memory of Tom (1941-07) |
The police didn’t know what to do with... |
| 12/12/2007 |
Los Colibries: Response to Hmmmmmm photos |
in response to
|
| 12/11/2007 |
Global Warming: A Northern Aubade |
I know you the way I know wind
from the... |
| 11/29/2007 |
What’s Missing Makes What’s Left: Pelican Perching |
Sometimes what’s left is a... |
| 11/27/2007 |
Beneath the Light |
in response to
|
| 11/27/2007 |
guest house |
a response to
|
| 11/08/2007 |
Frida's Portraits |
Deep eyes, like the agates we... |
| 10/29/2007 |
Funeral |
Whose child is this?
A family... |
| 10/18/2007 |
Seven Shades of Gray |
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| 10/07/2007 |
Travel |
I am of the moving generation,
There... |
| 10/04/2007 |
Searching for Her |
The lithe Io was changed into a white... |
| 09/25/2007 |
Bridges |
Along the Chao Phyra spires of golden wats,... |
| 09/18/2007 |
In India, an Allegory |
There is a horned cow trudging across the... |
| 09/10/2007 |
Waiting For The Ice To Go Out |
You must open your heart to sky
to earth,... |
| 09/04/2007 |
Empire |
The fog is growing thicker
by the... |
| 08/30/2007 |
Like Blue Loves a Wing |
for
|
| 08/28/2007 |
Touching Stone |
Only on this earth, our bodies
entwined in... |
| 08/25/2007 |
Chianti, Among Stones |
for
|
| 08/21/2007 |
A Candle, A Hope |
(after "Spen in... |
| 08/14/2007 |
Fair |
There was an old yellow streetcar.
There... |
| 08/07/2007 |
Words Not to Live By |
Don’t write about what’s going... |
| 08/01/2007 |
Making Form - Metaphor |
It takes two ideas to make a poem:
The... |
| 07/23/2007 |
Confluence |
I walk out of the nun’s cemetery past their... |
| 07/23/2007 |
Perpetual Gift |
to
|
| 07/16/2007 |
Dinnsheanchas: the deep lore of a place |
Slow means slow, the ease in release
like... |
| 07/15/2007 |
Last Light |
Fat fruit of incandescence
sphere of peeled... |
| 06/29/2007 |
Watcher |
This remains:
the fog rolls up the... |
| 06/28/2007 |
House Dreams - A Self Portrait |
In the late December dark
sunlight is... |
| 06/20/2007 |
Blue Window |
Beauty all places
here, inside us, between... |
| 06/12/2007 |
On the Edges - A response to the photo Carpet Circle |
For the photo,
|
| 06/11/2007 |
Sea Glossary - Response to the photo: I'm Not Leaving |
For the photo,
|
| jJune 6, 2007 |
CALVARY CEMETERY STATUE |
For the photo,
|
| June 4,2007 |
Memento |
The day before
I went into the convent
I... |
| June 4, 2007 |
Three Things, A Photograph |
For the photo,
|
| May 23, 2007 |
Our Bodies, the Stations |
Response to
|
| May 7, 2007 |
In These Fields |
For the photo
|
| May 2, 2007 |
Rock |
For the photo of
|
| 4-30-07 |
Grief |
Because space has taken
the shape of his... |
| 04/18/07 |
Eclipse |
The shorn fields
expose their ribs
while... |
| 03/05/07 |
Outer Island |
Don’t you remember how
we were lovers... |
| 2/27/07 |
Across black waters, coming |
The English brought a lot with them,
a... |
| 2/18/07 |
Greek Theater |
Greek Theatre
Those statues in Greece,... |
| 01/28/1970 |
Before Leaving |
Before Leaving
He
stayed with... |
| 01/25/1970 |
Carnality: A Dream |
Carnality: A Dream
Forget cars, forget... |
| 01/19/2007 |
Soon |
Soon
you will be returning to the... |
