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In a Beautiful Country - A good way to fall in love

O'Connor at Andalusia - It came with the steady pace of dusk

Museum - Sundays, like a stanza break

The Hour and the Ghost - O love, love, hold me fast,

Miss Mary Mack Introduces Her Wings - My name is Miss Mary Mack Mack Mack

The Cloisters - From a place in the kingdom of France

The Desolate Field - Vast and gray, the sky

the shoes - fridays i love the nonslip footstuff, / pure hubbub, bulk-bought then trucked

At a Lunar Eclipse - Thy shadow, Earth, from Pole to Central Sea,

Beneath Speech - She lay very still

If I Were Paul - Consider how you were made.

A Boat Is a Lever - After my student went to the doctor to

Holiday - I want to lick someone

Restless Ghost - The wasp's paper nest hung all winter

The Ol' Tunes - You kin talk about yer anthems

Freedom in Ohio - I want a future

Coat - At eleven I learned to lie.

Gitanjali 4 - Life of my life, I shall ever try to keep my body pure,

Invisible Work - or teachers, guides whose gestures

An Ante-Bellum Sermon - We is gathahed hyeah, my brothahs,

Poem by Poem - poem by poem

A Hymn on the Nativity of My Savior - I sing the birth was born tonight

Render, Render - Boil it down: feet, skin, gristle,

Rhyme of My Inheritance (audio only) - Click the icon above to listen to this audio poem.

suffering succotash - Lillian simply feathered up her tresses.

Arab Song - The eye shifts in the night when death arrives

Hospital Writing Workshop - Arriving late, my clinic having run

from Oracles for Youth - Directions

For an Atheist - Mountains cover me like rain, Billows whirl and rise; Hide me from the stabbing pain In His reproachful eyes.

Restless Leg Syndrome (audio only) - Click the icon above to listen to this audio poem.

The Jungle - In midsummer, in Los Angeles,

Silence Is So Accurate, Rothko Wrote - Accurate like an arrow without a target

My Heart like a Nation - You threw off your exile

At Husking Time - At husking time the tassel fades / To brown above the yellow blades,

Oft, in the Stilly Night (Scotch Air) - Oft, in the stilly night,

Ashes - The tide comes in; the tide goes out again

This Page Ripped Out and Rolled into a Ball - A rose by any other name could be Miguel or Tiffany Could be

Time does not bring relief (Sonnet II) - Time does not bring relief; you all have lied

The Habit of Perfection - Elected Silence, sing to me

Hay for the Horses - He had driven half the night

Poem at Thirty - The rich little kids across the street

To the Daisy - In youth from rock to rock I went, / From hill to hill, in discontent

We Named You Mercy - I count the years after you,

One Flower - One flower

Coda - You waited at the station entrance.

Fable - The mountain and the squirrel

Walls - Without reflection, without mercy, without shame,

At the BBQ Spot - A simple recipe for dodging flies // in the heat at a barbecue spot

The Adventures of Simon Swaugum, a Village Merchant - Preliminary Particulars

Sisters of Charity - More Irish seem to arrive here every day,

Still - I said I will find what is lowly

With the Boy, in the Dark - The boy is interested in black holes

Ghazal: America the Beautiful - Do you remember our earnestness our sincerity

The Shropshire Lad, III - Leave your home behind, lad,

A Poetic Breeze, An Anthology of Poems -

Porcelain - As when a long forgetfulness lifts suddenly, and what

Anarcha Will Speak and It Will Be So - massa come in like he know i caint cry

A Marriage at Ancestral Hall in Sun Village - She will never return home.

Advice to a Young Poet - Ask the question.

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Eating Wild Carrots with My Brothers on the Mesa - cicada wane / water and sun race every infinite evening

For Transtromer - In the cold heavy rain, through

Signs of the Times - Air a-gittin' cool an' coolah

To John Keats - Great master! Boyish, sympathetic man!

Reciprocity is a Two-Way Street - Say you are reading Barthes, or rereading Barthes,

The Driest Place on Earth - I listened with horror to the words I was missing.

Lullaby - The boy was standing at the exit

Summer Images - Now swarthy Summer, by rude health embrowned

Aperture (audio only) - Click the icon above to listen to this audio poem.

To Hope - Oh, Hope! thou soother sweet of human woes!

I, New York - I long to hear the history of ordinary people who populate and recreate all over the NYC subway lines,

The Monster, What Some Thought a Man - or bear, came from the swamp,

Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour - Light the first ligh of evening, as in a room

The Mansion - It all changed when the daughters of men began giving birth to us. We had no hair. Our mothers held us against their thick hair. It tickled our...

If I should die (54) - If I should die,

Lying My Head Off - Here's my head, in a dank corner of the yard

Big Sky Domestic - The neighbors are watching teevee again & the pale blue of Montana morning licks the long wall of the bedroom silently, each block of gauzy...

Chant of Spring - Like an unhappy woman Earth frees herself

My Fancy - Why do trees along the river

Stellar Body - You pursue me with a thought, are a thought

A Poem about Home - I learned to chop from the hand.

Blessings - Blessings for these things:

The Bottom - I stopped drinking on my way down the hill

A Letter Comes and Visits Me - A letter comes and visits me. Puts its legs up in the living room. Wanders

Devonport - The man has chosen / that he wants his ashes scattered / from the end of the pier

The Serving Girl - The calabash wherein she served my food,

A Winter Blue Jay - Crisply the bright snow whispered,Crunching beneath our feet;Behind us as we walked along the parkway,Our shadows danced,Fantastic shapes...

Exclusively on Venus - Roses are red / violets are transsexual / welcome to womanhood / now get to work honey

Confetti Allegiance: Love Letter to Jim Brodey - Is there a deceased poet who was alive in your lifetime but you never met

In the Library - There's a book called