Lifesaving Lines: The Bight, by Elizabeth Bishop

‘Awful but cheerful’ is the final phrase and line of ‘The Bight‘, by Elizabeth Bishop. I’ve always felt that the … More

A list of found poems

Here is a list of various found poems that I have made over the years. Happy holiday reading and looking … More

I don’t want to pretend for a second that it was great. It was full of rawness and grief and … More

Dear Arthur Frank I’m writing to say thank you for your extraordinary book At the Will of the Body. It is … More

The Fear of Poetry In this moment when we facehorizons and conflicts widerthan ever before, we want our resources,the ways … More

Twilight Three minutes ago it was almost dark.Now all the darkness is in theleaves (there are no morelow garage roofs, … More

The Layers I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I … More

I can’t be alone in experiencing the coronavirus crisis and resulting lockdown as something of an infringement on my … More

The Schoolchildren Like leaves startled by a gust of wind they peel away from the tight-knit group, one child, two, … More

Simply Lit Often toward evening, after another day, after another year of days, in the half dark on the … More

Dying Nothing to be said about it, and everything – The change of changes, closer or further away: The … More

The washing never gets done. The furnace never gets heated. Books never get read. Life is never completed. Life … More

As Planned After the first glass of vodka you can accept just about anything of life even your own mysteriousness … More

Empathy and New Year A notion like that of empathy inspires great distrust in us, because it connotes a further … More

A Blessing in Disguise Yes, they are alive and can have those colors, But I, in my soul, am alive … More

Mary At first a fluttering then a kick, his fist pummelling my rib cage when I knelt to pray. They … More

BC – AD This was the moment when BeforeTurned into After, and the future’sUninvented timekeepers presented arms. This was the … More

December Il va neiger dans quelques jours Francis Jammes The giant Norway spruce from Podunk, its lower branches bound, this … More