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  • My Obituary

    Will it merit a full column in The Post or The Times

  • From Rainer Maria Rilke’s Die Sonette an Orpheus / The Sonnets to Orpheus translated from German by John Rosenwald

    O fountain-mouth, you gift-giver, you mouth

  • Three Poems

    You suckered me, Legs—

  • Untitled

    But here in the city there are signs and crowds in the street

  • Unified Theory

    The night is blue and staggered with stars.

  • Whatever Alights

    A zillion yeses to the titmice at my feeder,

  • My Groundhog

    I had a groundhog in my back yard.

  • Nocturne

    Last night a barred owl swept across the road,

  • NOTES ON SILENCE

    The racket of birdsong wakes me at 4am, before first light.

  • America

    America, I have a friend for whom everything went south

  • The Big Blow

    After the snow-soused April gale I wandered

  • A Bookstore in Hay-on-Wye

    In a Tudor castle now a vast used bookstore in Hay-on-Wye