From The Adirondack Chair
When young’uns (poets mostly)
say elder
They spout it
having concluded
that anyone over 39
sat a couple of rows back
from Sappho
in...
PORTRAIT OF DISAPPOINTMENT
after years of hoping things would changegiving in to "well, that's the way it is,"look me in eyes and realizethis is who...
Interstate
Most take the ramp for common needslike heeding nature’s urgent call.No matter where the journey leads,though, for some reason exit all,
Like getting out to...
geometric pattern, untroubled
how long traced
out there on the marble floor
in paradise—where we have just arrived
our object–we are again reminded
was to love and be fully...
Merton in East Asia
Those daysthat carried him
never carried himfar enough
Thomas Merton foresawhis death in a vision
and still flew to Thailandon a speaking tour
An accidentalcrown...
Limerence“The heart writes in indelible ink”~Steve Almond, “Ecstasy”
I followed you out west,when I was in despair—you took me back, reluctantly.We spent the winter in...
As Moon Beams Fade
The tiger prowls at night,
hunting moon beams as its prey.
Wandering apparitions sail the darkness,
searching for a place to rest.
Landing past dawn,...
Tyrant-Poem
IWe will shake our bodies like animals abandoned in the forest,and the moon will sing lullabies for thedead;the dead who were mine and did...
New Day, New War
dawn breaks over dust—jets thunder into IranIsrael’s warning
missiles cross at dusk—sirens bloom in BeershebaTel Aviv trembles
bunker busters boom—America joins the fraycall...
Glass Houses
We hide behind glass—thin, trembling breath,shattered silence,each crack a raw wound,a secret bleeding light.Truth fractures us—yet in jagged breaks,strength flickers, trembling,not a mask,...
