Sampling of Poems

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Read the poems below here.

A Flower Song
A Stone Falling, A Falling Stone
An Invocation
Annunciation
Antinous in Egypt
Ars Poetica: The Queen
Beauty and the Beast
Birth
Bluebird
Bluets
Darkwood (from Gilgamesh / Enkidu)
Demeter’s Sorrow
Entomology
Findings
Flowering Apricot
How peaceful the porch swing
I am thankful
I Have Never Wanted
I will write you when I am coming
Imminent Flower (from Gilgamesh / Enkidu)
Italian Scene
Le Quattro Stagioni
little: a Happy Hill Sutra
Lovesick Shirt
Meeting the Centaur: Horseman
Millennium Approaches
Minotaur
Minotaur Exposed
Mockingbird
Music
Paradiso
Pause
Pegasus
St. Jerome in His Study
Sebastian at Siege
Shedding the Old Self
Snake in Autumn
Song
Sweet Fennel
That Night
The Beaver
The Big Bang
The Cat
The Goodbye Nest
The Green Man’s Man including A Green Narrative in a Green Shade
The Listeners
The Loom
The Man Who Ate Butterflies
The Spell
The Spirit of the Hive
The Sting
The Swarm
Thrush’s Parable and Adam’s Gospel
Told in a Dream
Variations on a Malay Theme: The Changes
The Whale
What I Know About Poetry
When You Stop to Rest
Your lack anointed me

Read each of the poems here.

Grateful acknowledgement is made to publications in which these poems first appeared.