THE MOUNTAINS AND WATERS OF THE IMMEDIATE PRESENT
When I love another person, after I close the circle I say, “I know that things are not always all the way one way.” This is an idealized tenderness. That …
Poetry
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Arthropoda Californiae
Three weeks after my husband’s cremation
I cancelled the contract
with the exterminator.Now, I share a home with arthropods.
They teach me to inhabit
hollow spaces. Their movements expand -
Aspens
You have to remember the Aspen grove;
the white stalks of trees, their stuttering leaves–
the descending quiet. Vesper sparrows.
No one beside you; no one behind you.
But you hear …
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every you, every us
Think remember map our
every you every us every night every darkness
lay fear down
lay in sadness
carry this acre
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Condominium Song #3
Steve speaks slowly, and because he is the
Housing Association President,
he also speaks in detail, willing nothing
be missed or wrong. He is old so events
take on … -
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Lorazepam
Our contract was balletic—
you took from me the rabbits spookedinside their still damp nest.
Then, you were a roomI lived through entirely. Snowed in
all the way … -
on alchemy
Never much good at judging distances
or my own physical strength, I imagine
this morning that I could swim across
the Mississippi, be in Illinois by lunch.I can see it …
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First New Year (Taos, New Mexico)
The mountain I hadn’t met lamented. It was you’re welcome; I’m sorry you don’t belong. It stood, said you don’t fit—sun hitting its middle—but stay. Far off, Gladys …
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Songs To Make You Feel Safe
Grateful for the Poplar Tree (1988)
Spring is Monolingual (2004)
Choir for Private People (2010)
Tranquil Stoneware Exhibit (2018)In all songs, time is a vessel.
They mistranslate vessel, in reality, …