A Poem
Summer 1986
The Garden and the Sea: An Essay for Helen
I The poem beginsin a garden at nightfall—two lovers courteouslytaking their leavehaving studied the old booksin which love is so intricateit takes the turningof a thousand pagesto pluck the rose […]
Poetry
Autumn 1984
An Icelandic Door
In Memoriam Paul Skoog I He carved this door as a pilgrim would undertake a long penance — silent, hooded in rough serge — take ship, the sea in his […]