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Untitled [Places among the stars,] Places among the stars, Soft gardens near the sun, Keep your distant beauty; Shed no beams upon my weak heart. Since she is here In a place of blackness, Not your golden days Nor your … Continue reading →

Horses at Midnight Without a Moon Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods. Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt. But there’s music in us. Hope is pushed down but the angel flies up again taking us with … Continue reading →

Sharks in the Rivers We’ll say unbelievable things to each other in the early morning – our blue coming up from our roots, our water rising in our extraordinary limbs. All night I dreamt of bonfires and burn piles and … Continue reading →

A Spiral Notebook The bright wire rolls like a porpoise in and out of the calm blue sea of the cover, or perhaps like a sleeper twisting in and out of his dreams, for it could hold a record of … Continue reading →

Those Winter Sundays Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him. … Continue reading →

A Not so Good Night in the San Pedro of the World it’s unlikely that a decent poem in in me tonight and I understand that this is strictly my problem and of no interest to you that I sit … Continue reading →

Night The cold remote islands And the blue estuaries Where what breathes, breathes The restless wind of the inlets, And what drinks, drinks The incoming tide; Where shell and weed Wait upon the salt wash of the sea, And the … Continue reading →

Writing on Not Writing I can feel my ship about to come in. A white ship in a snowstorm moving in. The ship is made of gulls huddled together in the shape of a ship. When it arrives, they will … Continue reading →