Warp and Weft: The Architecture of Longing
Warp and Weft: The Architecture of Longing Always thinking of the next move, she never arrived, fully, in the place she happened…
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Running the River Regret
Running the River Regret It’s an easy put-in, but Bull Sluice to Shoulder Bone is a run of holes that might claim…
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Sun, Descending
Sun, Descending Yellow sky, pale as a breath, crescendos into flames running the rim of earth. Pitch silhouettes of cottonwood trees ripple…
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In the Face of Such Abundance
In The Face of Such Abundance This lovely, laden spring has left me quivering, a mouth just kissed. The bloom on…
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Always in August
Always in August Festooned in flaming trumpet vine and daylilies, tomatoes just coming on, really, and afternoons still bearing down on our…
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Sweet By and By
Sweet By and By I am a mayfly, blue-winged olive here one day then gone, entire life spooled out over a sunlit…
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Eyes Lifted
Eyes Lifted Bruised sky, purpled breath of a fall late in coming. Rain dribbled windows smear the catalpa tree, emerald to…
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And Haven’t Things Always Been Falling Down Around Us
And Haven’t Things Always Been Falling Down Around Us Come. Forty years gone, I can still show you the ruins we used…
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The Names of Things
The Names of Things All this desperate searching, striving, buttoned up to your chin in absolutes. For you, brother, I say…
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Making A Case for Rain
This morning, on my way to work, I stopped to chat a minute with a neighbor, an older gentleman I see nearly every…
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