Poems

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  • What is Pleasure

    The supreme pleasure of love
  • Prayer Written on a Wide Veranda on a Comfortable Couch in Sewanee, TN

    If prayer requires an audience that is divine
  • Trouble

    And so it took shape, & from what.
  • Seeking Alpha

    Praise for the one who can take us above
  • You Don’t Drink Wine? and I Tremble: Two poems by Rumi

    What? You don’t drink wine? Infidel, begone!
  • AN OTHER ROSE: FOR HENRI MICHAUX | FROM “ROSES: DEDICATIONS” | SINGING “ WITHOUT PEOPLE” | UNTITLED

    There is an other rose – soul of my kith and kin!
  • Willem Van de Velde the Younger, Ships in a Gale (1660) and Matsumura Goshun, Crab (late 18th century)

    The storm dissolves the difference between wave,
  • Black Apples & Landing

    Dropping to the red earth, these, the night bearing
  • What is Grand

    Don’t mumble
  • So This is the Future & Hope

    After I found out––
  • Ode to Cabeza de Vaca

    What good is it to see for miles and miles,
  • Seven Minutes with Mary Halvorson: Poetry and Jazz, Hand in Hand

    Artlessly falling through overstretched arms delivers the night underground, a hole