Sun, Descending
Sun, Descending Yellow sky, pale as a breath, crescendos into flames running the rim of earth. Pitch silhouettes of cottonwood trees ripple…
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The Evolution of Clouds
The Evolution of Clouds Memories play out, slow, mutable clouds shifting subtly across the expanse of blue years, becoming truer than…
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Since April
Since April Your mother has died, You are motherless. These are two distinct pains. One follows you, room to room, a…
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At the Hands of a Poet
At the Hands of a Poet Neruda heats me up with “I want to do with you what spring does with the…
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Between Love and a Hard Place
Between Love and a Hard Place Just days after he moved his young bride into the house, he went on a rampage,…
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The Sound of a Marching Band Always Did Make Me Cry A Little
The Sound of a Marching Band Always Did Make Me Cry a Little The click and throb of a drum corps slays…
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The Ocean of You Never Changes
The Ocean of You Never Changes Look inside. You will see it’s true. Even when you were very small, birds held the…
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Almost Home
Almost Home Urging my brother’s car north, away from the hot and straining airport, I will the flat land to pass away…
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And Haven’t Things Always Been Falling Down Around Us
And Haven’t Things Always Been Falling Down Around Us Come. Forty years gone, I can still show you the ruins we used…
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