The Rav of Northern White Russia declined… in his youth, to learn the language of birds, because the extraneous did not interest hi…

In the Japanese tongue of the min…

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

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

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

All others talked as if talk were a dance. Clodhopper I, with clumsy feet would break the gliding ring. Early I learned to

Let me be at the place of the cast… Let the castle be within me. Let it rise foursquare from the mo… Let the moat’s waters reflect gree…    the shells of swimming turtles…

When I found the door I found the vine leaves speaking among themselves in abund… whispers. My presence made them

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…

The ache of marriage: thigh and tongue, beloved, are heavy with it, it throbs in the teeth We look for communion

Though the road turn at last to death’s ordinary door, and we knock there, ready to enter and it opens easily for us,

What is green in me darkens, muscadine. If woman is inconstant, good, I am faithful to ebb and flow, I fall