A
About this, even diamonds do not lie. 60
along with the love letters bound in silk. 30
amplified, sounded like a choir? 152
and always silent. 231
and broken. 105
and each finds her own way out. 157
and fidget of my nerves. 198
and never meant to stay there. 220
and one more guess and one more chance. 182
and out, they wouldn’t show me. 48
and skipped between the breakers jubilant and sunk. 212
And sometimes hydrogen peroxide. 11
And that is why the stars are drunkards. 16
and then you will wash your face. 106
and tried. What I don’t understand is the beauty. 190
and we be torn apart. 5
a rose, chunks of ice bobbing in the lake. 227
as punishment for too much lust and feeding. 3
At least as attributable to the yawn. 268
At least turn me over so I can see the sky. 123
away from and where we don’t want to go. 244
B
been given your free gift. 51
before you’re dead? 28
being touched again. 86
blank-prone forever. 4
boarded up then turned into bowling lanes. 57
but soon and forever. 267
but there’s a yellow flower in your cough. 172
but there’s no one above you. 124
C
cajoled to boil, says, This is my soul, freed. 195
Calm? I am calm. 174
charged with her protection. 56
clouds that were his idea. 219
come look at the moon, come watch the waves. 208
constitute a gift. 147
D
dented, immutable, unalloyed. 77
doesn’t mean you wanted too much. 143
E
eating each other. 238
even in a vacuum, the moon erodes. 89
Even now, we love each other. 22
F
fall on the no more factory. 186
for a scorpion. 71
from becoming the world’s biggest lightning bug. 128
from the flowers, carefully and with conviction. 20
G
glue, bone. Dimensions unknown. 58
H
hammering makes the world. 101
handprint on the sky. 74
has its hood pulled over it and hushes. 70
heaves itself into the frigid strait. 225
how it can only get so far from the sea. 41
How wonderful our poisons don’t kill her. 200
hum of glories. 83
I
I am pilfering and wanton and struck. 217
If only my body wasn’t borrowed from dust! 178
I liked the way it turned out. 193
I love you I say meaning lend me 20 bucks. 211
Imagine being that close to death. 34
I’m almost not anywhere. 38
in an economy all their own. 270
in fact it’s rained solid for weeks. 10
in the bright-shining thicket. 96
In the distance, a cloud of dust. 67
into seed and wind, into dirt, into into into. 112
into the minnowy gears of the sea. 88
Invisible, barefoot river. 114
invulnerable and nearly vanished. 53
is how I find myself wandering a temple. 99
is John Keats. 111
is one inch wide and five miles long. 185
It didn’t matter which way it broke. 94
it proved not to be there. 85
It’s a miracle. 8
its melting for tears. 213
I will do whatever you say. 162
K
knocked-up. Some questions are best not asked. 247
L
Later he was surrounded by a beautiful sphere of light. 249
least I go unrecognized in paradise. 196
Let’s flee. Now can I have a drink? 95
like needles on water. 129
luminous with yes-sexy friction. 72
M
make them unidentifiable. 233
mewing beneath the earth. 156
mostly short answer, some i.d. 154
My soul is a baby wolf. 142
N
never quite right. 29
never seeing them again. 35
Nothing can be fixed. 150
Now imagine you’re that frog. 215
Now try it on your own at home. 265
O
of a tiny room. 177
of its emptiness and peace. 91
of the spirit that cannot be destroyed. 32
on an upside-down mountain. 97
on being drunk when I leave. 121
One became the earth she loved, one was revived. 240
only falls. 126
Or does nothing make its sound? 133
or will it be sleep’s pure peace of nothingness? 69
Or wouldn’t again. 271
over the sundial of our lives. 188
P
plum, I come undone, undone. 47
pulled by a man talking to himself. 43
R
red parabola within flesh. 237
right in the middle of your chest. 204
rose or kiss made of mist. 260
S
shuddering cores of cinder, whirlwinds of ash. 15
so even my hips open like wings. 256
so I may be qualmless and happy as you. 37
so turn away, dropping it in your pocket. 180
spiders and worms live in. 40
still and will forever welcome you home. 141
still some fledgling pledge? 263
stopping to move a turtle off the road. 161
Such a paltry gesture, my surrender. 90
T
that the subject will change you. 102
that too contribute to the beauty of this world. 149
the ice breaks into pills the river swallows. 24
then it rains and rains and rains. 206
then lift it over your head. 93
Then there’s what washes up. 25
then they just split apart. 258
There’re free matches by the door. 169
There’s nothing left but hope. 39
These chains too conspire our salvation. 222
the solarium. 202
The swans are back on the lake. 62
the tornado drill has been postponed. 164
The trees our fathers planted we will not see again. 135
To be fit for nothing else, except teaching. 116
to buy peaches. The road was sand. 104
to chase and crush. 98
to dance a creditable tango. 118
to get them working again. 242
to not answer it, there’s all this blood on the sheet. 224
to the ground from the birth canal. 131
touch us in our sleep. 261
trying to fill the world with light. 26
trying to keep your secrets. 229
trying to poke through a mouse hole in the cosmos. 80
turns chilly and full of jasmine. 140
U
until the pilot hits one. 255
V
very very little gold. 45
W
waddle off the cliff. 108
was something immense and intact. 159
we’ll go to the sea. 194
We make no sound walking over pine needles. 18
what you can’t live without. 54
when you don’t even know who you are. 235
where you must go by. 81
who are always gentle with their young. 166
Wordsworth’s death, the dedication removed. 184
Y
Yeah, like who don’t, only smaller. 170
yet one remains unknown. 246
you are in fact dying. 110
You may see a whale. 253
you must work for months with wooden blocks. 79
your chipmunk glance a schwa. 46
Your light meter was in my glove box. 65
You will still be rain, blurry as a mouse. 6
you won’t have to worry if you are really loved. 138