The blast skims over the string of takeoff lights and relinquishing

This is just a place: we go around, distanced, yearly in a star’s atmosphere, turning daily into and out of

I went for a walk over the dunes a… to the sea, then turned right along the surf rounded a naked headland

I don’t know somehow it seems suff… to see and hear whatever coming an… losing the self to the victory of stones and trees, of bending sandpit lakes, crescent

I have a life that did not become, that turned aside and stopped, astonished: I hold it in me like a pregnancy o… as on my lap a child

There is now not a single leaf on the cherry tree: except when the jay plummets in, lights, and, in pure clarity, squalls:

afternoon’s blue clouds and white rain the mockingbird in the backyard untied the drops from

I said I will find what is lowly and put the roots of my identity down there: each day I’ll wake up and find the lowly nearby,

I’ve pressed so far away from my desire that if you asked me what I

One failure on Top of another

When the crow lands, the tip of the sprung spruce bough weighs so low, the

All afternoon the tree shadows, accelerating, lengthened till sunset

The people of my time are passing… wife is baking for a funeral, a 60… died suddenly, when the phone ring… Ruth we care so much about in inte… it was once weddings that came so…

Fall fell: so that’s it for the l… some flurries have whitened the ed… and lawns: time for that, the snow… turkeys and old St. Nick: where a… find something to write about I ha…