Poetry
Winter 1958
Calypso
I am a woman become a sea: So at a breath do you bring me The swelling tide, the slip Slide, and wash of the moon: The sea-anemone of lip […]
Poetry
Autumn 1994
Stop the World
The way things move when they’re not moving. Sickening, thelurch of consciousness when you find out at the railroad station suddenly the train right next to you’s leaving, good-bye to […]
Poetry
Summer 1990
The Other
Out of the flux of light talk, coming and going naturally the one woman thinks she's just trying to comfort the other woman who is silent, grim striding next to […]
Poetry
Summer 1990
The Verdict
Lean squirrel racing flat out across the road just inches away from the car's careening snout, what is it I see in you of myself, all I can't know or […]
Poetry
Winter 1990
The Periscope of the Eye
At cocktail parties submerged But still struggling, craning my neck up On the street talking to others Or not talking, how keep the periscope of the eye open Wide enough? […]
Poetry
Winter 1958
Circumnavigation
But think of them and there they are. The mind is fractured like a star, Spread out across a crowded sea Of harbors and ports and faces Split into people […]
Poetry
Winter 1958
Proudflesh
A thousand Edens lost, and autumn In the garden of old men Is fall, is aimless, is a parade of pain, Is Adam old in vain: Who whispers I have […]