We need the ceremony of one anothe… meals served, more love, more handling of one another with… casting out of those who are not of our own household.

Harnessed and zipped on a bright October day, having lied to his wi… Hazard jumps, and the silk spanks open, and he is falling safely. This is what for two years now

In Chota Nagpur and Bengal the betrothed are tied with thread… mango trees, they marry the trees as well as one another, and the two trees marry each other.

on their own, I call that willful,… but that’s not judgement, only arg… such as we’ve had before. I watch a shaky man climb a cast-iron railing in my head, on

Touching your goodness, I am like… Who turns a letter over in his han… And you might think this was becau… was unfamiliar but, truth is, the… Has never had a letter from anyone…

Go, little book. If anybody asks Why I add poems to a time like th… Tell how the comeliness I can’t t… Of ships and other figures of cont… Compels me still until I give the…

The two oaks lean apart for light. They aren’t as strong as lone oaks but in a wind they give each other… Daily since I cleared them I can… them, tempting to chain saw and ax…

Tonight Hazard’s father and stepm… jazz for McGovern. In the old gam… the old liberals listen as the qui… crazy houses out of skin and brass… the house of decorum, everybody li…

Going abruptly into a starry night It is ignorance we blink from, dar… There is a gaze of animal delight Before the human vision. Then, ar… To nebulous danger, we may look fo…

A person is very self-conscious ab… It makes one nervous just to know… In enduring materials, and that wh… The cast one, if nobody drops it o… We pay more attention to the front…

Outside the hotel window, unenligh… weave and dive like Stukas on thei… apparently some tiny insect brothe… (In India, the attainment of nonv… is considered a proper goal for hu…

Despair is big with friends I lov… Hydrogen and burning jews. I give them all the grief I have But I tell them, friends, I choos… Don’t make me say against my gland…

In the tunnel of woods, as the roa… Winds up through the freckled ligh… Larger than life, crosses the road… He moves with the difficulty of re… Possum, armadillo, horseshoe crab.

Climbing the stairway gray with ur… Cheerful, venial, ruminating pleas… Darkness takes me, an arm around m… Give me your wallet. Fearing cowardice more than other…