Something is very gently, invisibly, silently, pulling at me-a thread or net of threads finer than cobweb and as

The tree of knowledge was the tree… That’s why the taste of it drove us from Eden. That fruit was meant to be dried and milled t… for use a pinch at a time, a condi…

After I had cut off my hands and grown new ones something my former hands had long… came and asked to be rocked. After my plucked out eyes

Genial poets, pink-faced earnest wits— you have given the world some choice morsels, gobbets of language presented

The fire in leaf and grass so green it seems each summer the last summer. The wind blowing, the leaves shivering in the sun,

Since I stroll in the woods more… than on this frequented path, it’s… trees I observe; but among fellow… what I like best is to see an old… fishing alone at the end of a jett…

iiGloria Praise the wet snow falling early. Praise the shadow my neighor’s chimney casts on the…

Two girls discover the secret of life in a sudden line of poetry. I who don’t know the

Not the moon. A flower on the other side of the water. The water sweeps past in flood, dragging a whole tree by the hair, a barn, a bridge. The flower

Turn from that road’s beguiling ea… to your hunger’s turret. Enter, cl… chill with disuse, where the croak… regards from shimmering eyes your… and the drip, drip, of darkness gl…

An old man whose black face shines golden-brown as wet pebbles under the streetlamp, is walking t… proportionate size, in the rain, in the relaxed early-evening avenu…

Intricate and untraceable weaving and interweaving, dark strand with light: designed, beyond all spiderly contrivance,

High in the jacaranda shines the g… of a small bird’s curlicue of song… for her to see or hear. I’ve learned not to say, these last years,

Down through the tomb’s inward arc… He has shouldered out into Limbo to gather them, dazed, from dreaml… the merciful dead, the prophets, the innocents just His own age and…

To lie back under the tallest oldest trees. How far the stems rise, rise before ribs of shelter open!