What You Missed That Day You Were Absent from Fourth Grade Mrs. Nelson explained how to stand still and listento…
Before
Before No shoes and a glossyred helmet, I rodeon the back of my dad’sHarley at seven years old.Before the divorce.Before…
A holiness to exhaustion
First There is a holiness to exhaustion is what I keep telling myself, filling out the form so my TA…
Ourselves again
Tollund That Sunday morning we had travelled far. We stood a long time out in Tollund Moss: The low ground,…
Be kind
Be Kind Not merely because Henry James saidthere were but four rules of life—be kind be kind be kind be…
You’ve got to write it all down
The unexamined life’s no different from …
The Thing Is
The Thing Is to love life, to love it evenwhen you have no stomach for itand everything you’ve held dearcrumbles…
When I am Asked
When I am Asked When I am asked how I began writing poems, I talk about the indifference of nature. …
Autumn
Autumn One night goes on longer than the rest, never so long, whiled away. Then dawn. Goodbye, insects. Hollow casings…
