The Journey One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice – though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. “Mend my life!” each voice cried. But you didn’t stop. You knew what [...]
Tag Archives: poems
Long Point Light
Monday, April 4, 2011
Long Point’s apparitional this warm spring morning, the strand a blur of sandy light, and the square white of the lighthouse–separated from us by the bay’s ultramarine as if it were nowhere we could ever go–gleams like a tower’s ghost, hazing into the rinsed blue of March, our last outpost in the huge [...]
a vener* state
Monday, September 27, 2010
I wish to run and run and sleep and sleep In motels or inns or any bed with a bath Let my legs replace my head Mind not I have no roof Mind-less I can better rest.
Many Nights
Monday, September 20, 2010
Many nights I swing from this emotion to that As memories take on as many takes In those years when each year could only be worse – In nocence, that funny word that should be spelled separate For becoming adults and knowing Se crets, its no tion, its pa in As well as its curious [...]
The Objects Entries 7
Thursday, August 5, 2010
When birds fly over the sky or in my head I think of where and when This has become my river – If each weed a drop I gather them all Until there is no bank for the water to rise. The current plays me over And knee deep I keep looking.
