Category Archives: 30 for 30 Poetry Celebration

To preserve formatting, this poem has been saved as a PDF. Please click on the link below to access it. Loving Breonna Author’s Statement: When I write about spring in all its newness and delight, I think of my neighbors … Continue reading →

To preserve formatting, this poem has been saved as a PDF. Please click on the link below to access it. PaTch WOrk RePubliCan Author’s statement: I took words from two poems I wrote—“In A Galaxy Far Away,” about my love … Continue reading →

Sixty Remembers Nineteen   We started the semester in ancient Mesopotamia. In fact, that part was pretty easy. They used a positional system, just like we do. Then, that extra degree of freedom….   The culture of the people who … Continue reading →

 The Work of the Poet             The work of the poet is to name what is holy* to find the sacred in a parade of ordinary days to single out the neglected phrase, the forgotten image summoning them, like Zacchaeus … Continue reading →

Infidels of the Church of the Next Word   arched like a cold backache, tinged red at the edges, words   stand in doorways, eyes fixed in sockets, wide-eyed,   as if they needed no latte no espresso no cappuccino … Continue reading →

Opaque Sketches     1. boldly brushed             smudge of old barn                         in charcoal smoke dawn fog boyhood home             with cool rain                         pausing its thrubbing   2. among gray doves             scarlet cardinals                         an abandoned trestle … Continue reading →

Brave     My friend sends me a NYTimes article about Nazi-fighting Jewish women during the holocaust, and she asks, “Do you think you would have been as brave as these women?”     It depends, maybe, on where I … Continue reading →

The Rather Mystical Art of Fighting on the Backside My love– Think of a good pigdog as a stretch across your chest.Open that thing up. So what kind of anarchicalstatement will we make today? We’ve gotten used to the comfortof … Continue reading →

A Poem is a Spiritual Suitcase   Do not wander from your path any longer, for you are not  likely to read your notebooks or your deeds of ancient Rome  and Greece or your extracts from their writings, which you  … Continue reading →