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Dearest man-in-the-moon, ever since our lunch of cheese & moonjuice on the far side of the sun, I have walked the craters of New…
Endless duplication of lives and o… —Theodore Roethke I have known the imperial power of… the awesome indifference of recept… I have been intimidated by desk &a…
The old poet with his face full of lines, with iambs jumping in his hair lik… with all the revisions of his body unsaying him,
Kabir says the breath inside the breath is God & I say to Kabir you are the breath inside that bre…
This is the dirty laundry poem– because we have traveled from town… accumulating soiled linen & sw… & blue-jeans caked & clott… & teeshirts crumpled by our gl…
(a flip through BRIDE’s) The silver spoons were warbling their absurd musical names when, drawing back
Smoke, it is all smoke in the throat of eternity. . . . For centuries, the air was full of… Whistling up chimneys on their spiky brooms
We sit on a rock to allow our souls to catch up with us. We have been traveling a long time.
Next birthday I am thirty-six, & formed (for all intents & purposes) in tooth & claw.
If God is a dog drowsing, contemplating the quintessential dogginess of the universe, of the whole canine race, why are we
Now, moving in, cartons on the flo… the radio playing to bare walls, picture hooks left stranded in the unsoiled squares where pain… and something reminding us
Looking for a place where we might turn off the inner dialogue, the monologue of futures & regrets,
Because my grandmother’s hours were apple cakes baking, & dust motes gathering, & linens yellowing & seams and hems
We used to strike sparks off each other. Our eyes would meet or our hands, & the blue lightning of love
You operate on the afternoon You perform open heart surgery on the ghosts of your suicidal friends You divorce your parents