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Across the bay: the tip of the lighthouse pierces the north end of the flat fog bank draping itself over the harbor like a hen covering her brood, the summer night soft and downy, safely oppressive, as pleasant as childhood...

You were most beautiful after you were gone, so often the case with love when your father took your mother for granted or she would rather have been an artist than a wife.  But there you are. What I recall was not the rhino...

The horse: difficult to provide for             because of the divorce, but necessary nonetheless, for how does one survive             except by disappearing completely in to love, that distinct smell and muzzle,            ...

Like water down the well of your back, I trace my touch over the slope of your ribs, feel your ujjayi dove reverberate into my anahata and all is a soft static   I hear the echo of mercury waves rock steady under the pink moon...

For the nights he spent on foot wondering the wakes the summit had left in its ofference as exception to earth, a dream would come like a lightning bolt and ground him and confusion would dance between spliced ions and scatter...

I study the shape of her open mouth as she says it. The cringe of her nose and upward pull of cheeks. The word on her lips as if: we are longtime friends, girlfriends even, who share secrets, know each other’s birthdays, our...

To be born in the fire of yesterday and breathe as if more is to come.   This sorrow that fills us, heavy with the ground of our need can also lift us like the scattered petals of spring buds.   Let it sing with the ache of new...

                        for Dean When I was barely twenty and hardly knew the solemnity of poetry and poets but knew the sense of it like a young girl knows the first flare of arousal in her body, I heard his big voice, thick...