Sonnets for Dancer XXXII
Daring to speak, wanting to sneak in two words, yet without relief they come like fire into…
union
Responsibility
If blank verse well-travelled, then the puritans’ words would be holding us today instead of the modernists’…
Third Mind
Why do we poke at the evening with light? Still why does it seem that the dusk…
Pressured Speech
If I were to recall those burning pains, it shrinks from me who provided the heat, how…
Xeriscaping
What did we lose in those primordial moments tossed in sarmassation, living in a glass house? I…
I’d like to get to know you…
If summer origin’d but one simple sin, like cold water in the morning shower does the gross…
What Would Neruda Do
You ride me like Neruda wrote tunes: And because love battles, I’d saddle you. And because love…
Ballad of Love Antique
To be vulnerable is to ask for contest, beg for Violence with its mate, Death, …
V. Six Caryatids
No words tonight– quiet, no sound, no light, nowhere bound, come with me–step light without ground. Wet,…
III. Six Caryatids
Agnyte, like yellowing eyes half- shut-up with jaundiced doubt, I turn back to you as one waif…