A Gathering of Poems
Spring 1984
Rhythmic Brushwork
A sky, like a canvas, accepts motion. A band Of orange monarchs in migration is drifting now Across that deepening background from the east. There is motion as the butterflies […]
A Gathering of Poems
Spring 1984
Creating Something out of Nothing
There is no dance in the field this afternoon. No girls have come barefoot in yellow silk, Turning and shouting, “Our movements are called Seven Goldfish Rising through Sunlight Underwater,” […]
Science, Science Fiction and Poetry
Autumn 1993
A New Notice of Motion: The Lover Waiting
You said you were coming. In the meantime the sun spider is circling before the tilting horizon upside down, and the founding of the orb snail is spiraling itself into […]
Science, Science Fiction and Poetry
Autumn 1993
Death Vision
I think it’s a multiplication of sight, like after a low hovering autumn rain when the invisible webs of funnel weavers and sheetweb weavers all at once are seen where […]
Science, Science Fiction and Poetry
Autumn 1993
Considering All the Moving Light, All the Stationary Darkness
Is light ever still? Not the blowing, feathery light of the fairy shrimp or the cartwheeling light-bones of the skeleton shrimp, not the shingled lake-light of wavering water in wind, […]
Poetry
Summer 1995
Mousefeet
from a lecture on Muridae cosmology Mousefeet are often as small, exact and precocious as eighth notes penned across a composer’s score. Most are no larger than two quarter-inch W’s […]
Poetry
Summer 1995
Where Do Your People Come from?
Great-grandfather originated inside the seamless shell of a hickory nut, being enabled, thereby, to see in blindness the future brightness of combusting seeds and the sun’s dark meat captured in […]