When they taught me that what matt… was not the strict iambic line goo… over the page but the variations in that line and the tension produ… on the ear by the surprise of diff…

I married you for all the wrong re… charmed by your dangerous family h… by the innocent muscles, bulging l… weapons under your shirt, by your… the colors of painted scraps of su…

I am only leaving you for a handful of days but it feels as thought i will be gone forever the way the door closes

When I taught you at eight to ride a bicycle, loping along beside you as you wobbled away

I remember what my father told me: There is an age when you are most… He was just past fifty then, Was it something about the trees t… There is an age when you are most…

Into the gravity of my life, the serious ceremonies of polish and paper and pen, has come this manic animal

Because the shad are swimming in our waters now, breaching the skin of the river with their

Finding a new poet is like finding a new wildflower out in the woods. You don’t see its name in the flower books, and nobody you tell believes

I sing a song of the croissant and of the wily French who trick themselves daily back to the world

I have banked the fires of my body into a small but steady blaze here in the kitchen where the dough has a life of its…

After Adam Zagajewski I am child to no one, mother to a… wife for the long haul. On fall days I am happy with my dying brethren, the leaves…

Perhaps the purpose of leaves is t… the verticality of trees which we… as if for the first time: row afte… yearning upwards. And since we wil… ourselves for so long, let us now…

The door of winter is frozen shut, and like the bodies of long extinct animals, cars lie abandoned wherever