Lifesaving Poems: Tom Raworth’s ‘8.06 p.m. June 10th 1970’

8.06 p.m. June 10th 1970poemTom Raworth (from Jumpstart, ed. Cliff Yates, Poetry Society, 1999) As I say in my previous blog post, … More

Foal Failure

Birth of the FoalAs May was opening the rosebuds,elder and lilac beginning to bloom.it was time for the mare to … More

I began writing the Lifesaving Poems series of blog posts in May 2010. The idea was to celebrate the poems that I … More

Elegy for Jane(My student, thrown by a horse)I remember the neckcurls, limp and damp as tendrils;And her quick look, a … More

The chances are, more of us are mortal than have multiple orgasms -Violet Weingarten, Intimations of Mortality When I was diagnosed … More

The Picnic It is the picnic with Ruth in the spring. Ruth was third on my list of seven girls … More