Category Archives: Poems

Compassion

Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don’t want it. What seems conceit,  [...]

The Waking

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what [...]

The Moon and the Yew Tree

This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary The trees of the mind [...]

Dreams

Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot [...]

From “Fosterling”

“That heavy greenness fostered by water“ John Montague “At school I loved one picture’s heavy [...]

From “Digging”

“By God, the old man could handle a spade. Just like his old man. My [...]

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Final Notions

It will not be simple, it will not take long It will take little time, [...]

Messianic

Consider the chalice: both what I seek And where I find, believing Savior’s blood Was [...]

Five Minutes Late 
(unrhymed villanelle)

You are a minute late for our appointment. I await you in a cafeteria, in [...]

Seed

I knelt at the stump and kissed its inner circle before standing to undress: the [...]