Nature’s Nature 2020
May/June 2020
Ear of Corn
An ear of corn In a gust of wind, Stirred from slumber, Rustles, beads of gold Bubbling under A tangle of silky hair. So many others fill The same field, […]
Poetry
July/Aug 2015
Burgundy Scarf
Undertone of dying leaf, marvel Of a scarf lost on a walk long ago, Later returning. Hand that made it Gone. Hand of the boy for whom It was made, […]
Poetry
Winter 2008
Open Field
Forget the comma, the crow said, darting onto another branch, random joy being his, being mine, being yours, depending on how you look at a branch, which is, after all, […]
Poetry
Winter 2008
Letter to the Snow
Why aren’t you here? I await your arrival. It is better when you surround me. Why does it matter at all that you haven’t arrived, if I know you will […]
Poetry
Autumn 2005
Always the Same Face
Full moon. Harvest moon. Late September. She's trying to get through. She cannot see us, we cannot see her Completely. Only one side is ever the side We see. However […]
Poetry
Winter 2005
A Needle in the Sky
There is a needle in the sky Being threaded now, but the thread is blue: That is why you cannot see it Threading its way. When all is said and […]
Poetry
Winter 2005
As Long as There Is Wind in the Trees
They happen to be beside each other, and so they touch For no apparent reason. Reason enough. They happen To be beside each other. So they touch. For us It […]
Poetry
Winter 2001
Archaic Notions
Time, then, and the heavens came into being at the same instant in order that, having been created together, if ever there was to be a dissolution of them, they […]
Poetry
Winter 2001
Meditation on A and The
Last night the world reduced itself to a and the And for a number of numberless hours Everyone spoke in a language combining The two, like the binary code […]