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  • Memoirs Of A Spinach-Picker
    They called the place Lookout Farm.
    Back then, the sun
    27 lines
  • On The Decline Of Oracles
    My father kept a vaulted conch
    By two bronze bookends of ships in sail,
    34 lines
  • New Year On Dartmoor
    This is newness : every little tawdry
    Obstacle glass-wrapped and peculiar,
    9 lines
  • The Beggars
    Nightfall, cold eye—neither disheartens
    These goatish tragedians who
    27 lines
  • The Tour
    O maiden aunt, you have come to call.
    Do step into the hall!
    56 lines
  • Yaddo : The Grand Manor
    Woodsmoke and a distant loudspeaker
    Filter into this clear
    21 lines
  • Natural History
    That lofty monarch, Monarch Mind,
    Blue-blooded in coarse contry reigned;
    12 lines
  • Mussel Hunter At Rock Harbor
    I came before the water ---
    Colorists came to get the
    90 lines
  • On Deck
    Midnight in the mid-Atlantic. On deck.
    Wrapped up in themselves as in thick veiling
    36 lines
  • On The Plethora Of Dryads
    Hearing a white saint rave
    About a quintessential beauty
    40 lines
  • The Dispossessed
    The enormous mortgage must be paid somehow,
    so if you can dream up any saving plan
    23 lines
  • Temper Of Time
    An ill wind is stalking
    While evil stars whir
    28 lines
  • Private Ground
    First frost, and I walk among the rose-fruit, the marble toes
    Of the Greek beauties you brought
    24 lines
  • WordsFor A Nursery
    Rosebud, knot of worms,
    Heir of the first five
    53 lines
  • Midsummer Mobile
    Begin by dipping your brush into clear light.
    Then syncopate a sky of Dufy-blue
    16 lines
  • Morning In The Hospital Solarium
    Sunlight strikes a glass of grapefruit juice,
    flaring green through philodendron leaves
    28 lines
  • The Trial Of A Man
    The ordinary milkman brought that dawn
    Of destiny, delivered to the door
    14 lines
  • Maudlin
    Mud-mattressed under the sign of the hag
    In a clench of blood, the sleep-talking virgin
    8 lines
  • The Burnt-Out Spa
    An old beast ended in this place:
    A monster of wood and rusty teeth.
    42 lines
  • Owl
    Clocks belled twelve. Main street showed otherwise
    Than its suburb of woods : nimbus---
    16 lines
  • Recantation
    'Tea leaves I've given up,
    And that crooked line
    20 lines
  • Song For A Summer's Day
    Through fen and farmland walking
    With my own country love
    20 lines
  • The Princess And The Goblins
    From fabrication springs the spiral stair
    up which the wakeful princess climbs to find
    103 lines, 1 comment
  • Ouija
    It is a chilly god, a god of shades,
    Rises to the glass from his black fathoms.
    32 lines
  • Sonnet: To Time
    Today we move in jade and cease with garnet
    Amid the ticking jeweled clocks that mark
    16 lines
  • Crystal Gazer
    Gerd sits spindle-shaped in her dark tent,
    Lean face gone tawn with seasons ,
    48 lines
  • Moonrise
    Grub-white mulberries redden among leaves.
    I'll go out and sit in white like they do,
    30 lines
  • Prologue To Spring
    The winter landscape hangs in balance now,
    Transfixed by glare of blue from gorgon's eye;
    15 lines
  • Spider
    Anansi, black busybody of the folktales,
    You scuttle out on impulse
    38 lines
  • Two Views Of Withens
    Above whorled, spindling gorse,
    Sheepfoot-flattened grasses,
    19 lines
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