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Short Measure
The hummingbird has lingered. A rhododendron blooms. But each night autumn’s chilly dreams Stalk through our bedrooms. The sky is gray and blank, Then eloquent with sun. The mood...
Drinking Stars
Down in the soul’s wine cellars The casks of virtue brood. They’re aging through the centuries, Like deep Alaskan crude. The casks of sin, however, Are daily tapped and...
Drinking Stars
Down in the soul’s wine cellars The casks of virtue brood. They’re aging through the centuries, Like deep Alaskan crude. The casks of sin, however, Are daily tapped and...
Realism
The world that welcomed the divorce Of word and thing is now outmoded. The two are one again. The world Of their new marriage has exploded. And in the...
Fox Days
Dull, restless mornings, crawling with hungers— To have something to do and to have done it. Blackbirds, treading the rubbery rowan branches. Sucking down the berries like juju beads....
