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 [...]