Poems

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  • Midsummer Paralysis

    A nerve was severed in my jaw—I remember numbness.
  • A Back Road Near Calais, 1961

    A Back Road Near Calais, 1961
  • Qinghai and Tengchong

    a prayer flag rolls around a heap of round stones
  • So Glad She Didn’t Live to See It

    What will it be, the thing they say
  • South Hole

    So worship fire.
  • The Mind Sliding

    around inside the scene:
  • The Loneliness of His Death

    I like to think there’s a place where all the poets go
  • On the Grounds of the Zendo

    The face of the Buddha’s so smooth, she whispered,
  • On Sadness | On Beauty

    I noticed something strange and beautiful about the word “sad.”
  • ON THE RMS QUEEN MARY | LATENT IMAGE

    I'm exploring the decks, the ship docked in Long Beach since '67. Same liner Mom sailed in '39 from England to
  • On Friendship, Haiku, Lust, and Blame

    Eye of hurricane,
  • American Upanishad (IV)

    The I is a pillar,