This poem has a door, a locked doo… and curtains drawn against the day… but at night the lights come on, o… in each room, and the neighbors sw… they hear music and the sound of d…

The new grass rising in the hills, the cows loitering in the morning… a dozen or more old browns hidden in the shadows of the cottonwoods beside the streambed. I go higher

Pond snipe, bleached pine, rue wee… I walk by sedge and brown river ro… to where the old lake boats went d… All the ships are gone, the gray w… in upon itself. Even the channel’s

On March 1, 1958, four deserters… August Rein, Henri Bruette, Jac… government pay station at Orleansv… confession of Dauville the other t… was given his freedom and returned…

If I gave 5 birds each 4 eyes I would be blind unto the 3rd generation, if I

The doctor fingers my bruise. “Magnificent,” he says, “black at the edges and purple cored.” Seated, he spies for clues… gingerly probing the slack

April, and the last of the plum bl… scatters on the black grass before dawn. The sycamore, the lim… the struck pine inhale the first pale hints of sky.

In the early morning before the sh… opens, men standing out in the yar… on pine planks over the umber mud. The oil drum, squat, brooding, bri… with metal scraps, three-armed cro…

If you were twenty-seven and had done time for beating our ex-wife and had no dreams you remembered in the morning, you might

In Havana in 1948 I ate fried dog believing it was Peking duck. Lat… in Tampa I bunked with an insane… who kept a .38 Smith and Wesson i… In the same room were twins, oiler…

My father and mother, two tiny fig… side by side, facing the clouds th… in from the Atlantic. August, '33… The whole weight of the rain to co… of all that has fallen on their ho…

The sour daylight cracks through m… “Stephan! Stephan!” The rattling… Comes on a trot, the cold tray in… Toast whitening with oleo, brown t… Yesterday’s napkins, and an opened…

Seven years ago I went into the High Sierras stunned by the d… to die. For hours I stared into a… mountain stream that fell down over speckled rocks, and then I

If the shoe fell from the other fo… who would hear? If the door opened onto a pure darkness and it was no dream? If your life ended the way a book ends

Take this quiet woman, she has bee… standing before a polishing wheel for over three hours, and she lack… twenty minutes before she can take a lunch break. Is she a woman?