Because the shad are swimming in our waters now, breaching the skin of the river with their

I have banked the fires of my body into a small but steady blaze here in the kitchen where the dough has a life of its…

When they taught me that what matt… was not the strict iambic line goo… over the page but the variations in that line and the tension produ… on the ear by the surprise of diff…

I want to write you a love poem as headlong as our creek after thaw when we stand

Some say it was a pear Eve ate. Why else the shape of the womb,

Perhaps the purpose of leaves is t… the verticality of trees which we… as if for the first time: row afte… yearning upwards. And since we wil… ourselves for so long, let us now…

Finding a new poet is like finding a new wildflower out in the woods. You don’t see its name in the flower books, and nobody you tell believes

The gathering family throws shadows around us, it is the late afternoon Of the family. There is still enough light

When I taught you at eight to ride a bicycle, loping along beside you as you wobbled away

What we want is never simple. We move among the things we thought we wanted: a face, a room, an open book

I married you for all the wrong re… charmed by your dangerous family h… by the innocent muscles, bulging l… weapons under your shirt, by your… the colors of painted scraps of su…

We invent our gods the way the Greeks did, in our own image’€”but magnified. Athena, the very mother of wisdom, squabbled with Poseidon

I remember what my father told me: There is an age when you are most… He was just past fifty then, Was it something about the trees t… There is an age when you are most…

When our cars touched When you lifted the hood of mine To see the intimate workings under… When we were bound together By a pulse of pure energy,