Contents

Sonoma

DARKLING

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DREAM POEMS

The net of heaven is cast wide

There is a frog

Grenade with its red pin

I was on a bus

His upper arms are marked

In a small boat off Port Renfrew

Moonlight falls between the trees

He stops her on the trail

A poet is walking the platform

The boat that was not a boat

It was a dry-weave hiker’s undershirt

A pool clear as tea

OLD MAN VACANAS

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SUTRA

The live arbutus carries dead branches

In the drift towards sleep, a green face

Beauty the mediating principle, the moon said

The house is dark

A small doll nested in hollow dolls

My mind is my grandchild

“Lao Tzu” also has the meaning of “old man”

Hard to find space

So you come

Mine me

In the slow spin of stars, a dancer turns

Valley of the Moon

Notes

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