Category: Poetry

Cellar Poem; New York City Ballet, 1963; What I Did One Sunday Morning

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Reading Lamp

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Cold Fire

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Old Men

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Double Take

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Smelling Horses

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Lime Kiln Point Lighthouse: San Juan Island, October 2014; Summer Summation

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Little Yew; Lamentation

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The Last Time; Unforgettable

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Flood and Fire and Bureau Drawer; Warming the Wax; The Pool

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Approaching Zero

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Against the Blue

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The Widow’s Cloud; The Shadowlet

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Life Lessons; “Not that he was here . . .”

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My Other Life; Solstice in Age; Trees Full of Prayers; The Way It Is

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Vellum; Forgetting; In Act V, Lear Attempts a Sonnet

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Outside the Door

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Late Afflictions

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The Treachery of Titles

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World

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Little Collage; Breakwater Rock

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Living Situation on Thomes Street

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Like Mowing the Grass; Annunciation Triptych

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Clearing Brush

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After Snow; “Tell It Slant”

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Lenape Names in Philadelphia; Gonzalez Grocery

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The Attic

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Reconstructed Sapphic Fragment 24C

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The Swifts

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Sestina on Six Words by Michael Peterson

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The Auction

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Shopping; Practicing Death

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First Prize: Lute Man; I Still Hold Memories

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Second Prize: Understory; This

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Third Prize: The Light at Dusk; Pines

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Honorable Mention: Harvest

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Honorable Mention: Sighting

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Evening

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Advice

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Cy Twombly’s Leda; Úbeda

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The Blank Museum

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Acid Permanent; Red Speaks

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Confluences

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Behold Thy Mother

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Sarcophagus of the Spouses

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Coda to Sappho

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A Pair of Glasses

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Dominant Harmony; A Mirror at Holy Name

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Silence Sounds Different Now; A Good End

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last summer i dug two graves i hope never to fill

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