Poetry

Our creature of winter   2005

Fallout/Idaho/1962   1990, 2003

Exeunt   1984, 2003

Down through the rump lands   2003

Alone with your house  1984, 1992

The diligence of your madness  2002

俳句  a haiku leaf-fall.... 

the damp sky leaden

we turn on all the old lamps

as the sun arrives

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brief rain a nothing

the arid plains unimpressed

not even thirsty

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wedding tango

while far below

the fossil record

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thirty all of them

comparing memories

the towers pancake

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the broken trail steep

this uncertain shack above

the valley ugly

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her scars pose questions

ten years a nun in Myanmar

jays screech in the woods

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the waterfall sings

that lieder from old Wagner

her kitchen fragrant

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she leaves her table

with a cool practiced flourish

red leaves just outside

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someone else's lilies

the funeral director

talks of "cremains"

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a passing crisis

the moon’s disappeared

broken when water stirred

Fiction

The Italian Afternoon

Headwind   (novel excerpt)

Max and the Burning Bush 

Sugar Candy  1999