May 1, 2020
Lines along a Wild Place
I walked through the enterprise of weeds. A crow for each of us stood mounted on a fence. Sometimes I miss everyone I ever loved When their faces reflect in […]
May 1, 2020
Lines about Mountains
I just learned that mountains kill More people climbing down them Than making their brave ascent; Or that some have the oldest Rocks on the earth. Small wonder They crumble […]
May 1, 2020
The Things They Know
That it takes eight minutes and twenty seconds for light to arrive here from the sun That light slows or speeds depending on the medium That this is called the […]
May 1, 2020
Giant’s Chair
Utö Island, Swedish Archipelago Worn into the sea rock, you recline into mossy arms, toes in brackish tide. A giant rested here, his vast sunburned hands. I’ve been difficult to […]
May 1, 2020
How to Live in Southern California
Stay in the car and move from one air-conditioned location to another chill location, perhaps in a tour of movie theaters. After a long winter back east, 76 percent of […]
May 1, 2020
Chester, Illinois
Cloud piles on cloud; keel scrapes sand. Coal dust drifts from a rusty barge, the river full of silt, field soldered to field, even the light heavy. Far from the […]
May 1, 2020
In a Bad Year
Soil-stains and overalls. Plants with names I couldn’t pronounce. The knife you lent me, caramel-thin, tucked in my pocket. I read books by a beeswax candle. Faulty power lines. Making […]
May 1, 2020
Watermelon
Evening drive on the back roads, you passed an uncarved Watermelon left on a picnic table and because you argued With your love before, you wanted to go back to […]
May 1, 2020
Locusts or Complaint as Protest
The cicadas are so loud and large tonight I call them locusts, hear them through the windows as they sing a cadence to evening. One flew in front of me […]
May 1, 2020
[Introduction]
Today, as I write this, is December 26, 2019 — the day, as it happens, between Christmas and my birthday. It is my pleasure, for the sixth year now, to offer you […]
May 1, 2020
Iambi IV / 194
An Imitation of Callimachus’ Iambi Once on the hill of Tmolus a laurel and an olive got into a fight, or rather the laurel decided to pick on the olive, […]
May 1, 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, […]