Who Was That Woman?
Who was that woman made love to me in the night in the empty room in the house without sound …
Tag Archives: Poetry
Am What I Am
Am what I am at 4 a.m– The same as I was at 1? After the carnivores of dreams have …
Lying Awake In the Dark
Lying awake in the dark Anticipating lying awake in the dark to come. Trying to let the body sink to …
Pelicans: A Poem
Having just come back from a small trip to Big Sur I’ve been finger leaping through Robinson Jeffers’ Selected Poetry. …
A Haiku in Winter
A Haiku in Winter The iced, white fog rising from the green of winter in Marin. The vulture peers, a …
Winter
Leaning back against the tree, branches and leaves are few: Ah! A night of stars! Shiki
Secretary of State
A friend sends this on, his translation of an Oscar Hahn poem from his newest book, “ashes in love.” Hahn …
I Am Wrestling With Myself
By Will Kirkland, 2008 I am wrestling with myself The old continuous struggle. First one side pinned to the floor, …
I Am An Old Man
By Will Kirkland, 2008 I am an old man Distracted by flies in the autumn warm sun on the backs …
Oasis: A Poem
By Alan Dugan, 1961 Whelped from blackness by a pressure of rocks, black water rose like breath from the lungs …
On An East Wind From the Wars
I’ve been reading Alan Dugan lately, one poem at a time. The morning is best for me, before the newspapers, …
Meeting At An Airport
by Tahah Muhammad Ali translation Peter Cole, Yahya Hjazi & Gabriel Levin You asked me once, on our way back …