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“Above and Below the Sea” and “King of the World”
“The man in sandals wants all things the sea favors. / In a child’s flowered room a man watches him from a window. / A shark tooth gray and wet winces in his hand.”
Poetry |
“I Know the Truth,” “Two Suns Are Cooling” and from “Take From My Hand, This City …”
“… a cloak will clothe you. And you will rise then, wondrous, covered / with its power, and you will not repent that you loved me …”
Poetry |
“October 6, 2016,” “October 30, 2016,” “[unsent draft]” and “March 1, 2017”
“A man I once loved said forgive me each time he committed even the smallest transgression. / He’d drink the last beer in the fridge and say forgive me as he lowered his body to mine on the couch.”
Poetry |
“Radar,” “Poetic Minimalism,” “Dandelion,” “Impressions of the Empiricist David Hume,” “Illumination” & “High-Speed Train”
“When a leaf falls / skyward —// and proceeds impertinently in its ascent — // it’s time to admit / we are talking about a butterfly.”
Poetry |
“Define an area as ‘safe’ and use it as an anchor,” “What mistakes did you make last time?” “In the syntax of surrender” & “Consider different fading systems”
“Down is a force, a source / of release although dams, aggressively / engineered and financed, work / against this — what’s held inside / is trapped. And harbors a plan / for spectacular escape …”
Poetry |
“On Ghosts”
“Shakespeare’s ghosts suit all / the critics argue. A skeptic, / Catholic, or Protestant / would each leave the Globe / with their idea of ghosts confirmed.”
Poetry |
from “The Ruins of Nostalgia”
“We were wise to flattery, to certainty, to historicity, but we lay down our burdens for all of them. We were wise to ourselves, in every sense. We were wise to hearts, candy or otherwise.”
Poetry |
“Interview With Gertrude Stein” and “Interview With Anne Carson”
What’s the point of loving others? AC: “There is a black planet speeding towards us.” (Glass, Irony and God)
Poetry |
“A Walk with Frank O’Hara”
“… debonair in white flannels, a small notebook / in one pocket, an egg and tomato / sandwich wrapped in wax paper in another.”
Poetry |
“Apart”
“… and here a man, his sudden awareness: / duration is patience preserving / presence through the ongoing, the violence.”
Poetry |
“Replay,” “Things We Believe as Children” and “The Séance”
“My spilled-milk / dress spreads around me / and does anyone send a net out / to catch me, to pull me to the surface?”
Poetry |
“Radical Domesticity”
Poetry |
“These nocturnal voices in shrubs,” “Fig and orange trees,” “Heroic deeds,” “Distance fades” & “Homeland laid bare”
“Homeland laid bare / at the base of memory // From afar, its forsaken shadow that trails / up to the border of wandering …”