The Great and Splendid Hunched on the limb of a young green tree A red-tailed hawk in a crowd of…

One by One… Go deeper Where rock is set aflame Making what is cold Molten lava Spewed forth To set…

Freak When dogs grow antlers, hooves, And stags loll out their tongues, When from the throats of wolves A sparrow’s…

Vortimer Bury me at Richborough, for then Barbarians will not through here raid Britain Though through other ports they may…

Having a Word with Judah Someone must have told you stories of your great- grandfather, Abram, and your great-grandmother, Sarai…

Untold The shrilling of the wren so loud Surrounded by a hollow bird, A nest in which a voice resides,…

Never can fast be the same as slow, Nor is an ebb tide at all like flow. Though both of…

Love as Mongrel We will be forgotten Here and on this world As worlds themselves go rotten Dispersed into the…

Speaking Other Language What do we know of the cool brook’s rising slowly from its rock-source: trickling, winding, fading among…

Chance We can’t go on the way we go, In moving darkness ruin grows, Living in my eighth decade I…