Poems

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  • Four Poems

    Unable to return from my ashes
  • Aqua and Violet

    Childlike ones don’t tattle on the choice of stepfathers.
  • Your Beautiful Mouth

    The sun is the sum of one particular age, the moon
  • The Next Life and Windpowered

    Sea fog drifting through the pines—
  • From A Line By Kawabata

    A solitary shadow in stillness
  • Don’t Know Much About the French I Took

    I silently disapproved when they said, “Let’s go French
  • Three Poems

    Every time I try to walk
  • Since Childhood & The Virgin’s Miracles translated by Don Schofield

    Think of the body on the sand,
  • In the Vestibule

    The in-between is queasy
  • A Brief Portfolio of Selected Poems by Yves Bonnefoy translated by Hoyt Rogers

    I admire the definition of poetry in Beasts, Men, and Gods, the inexhaustible book by Ossendowski.
  • The Sailor’s Love Song and Irish Whiskey

    When I was young I burned to be
  • It’s 3 A.M., Winter, and Nine Miles from Truckee

    and nobody better than I to tell you about