Poetry Archive

Seduction is always the seduction out of time, fulfillment always in the moment. This is how we are held by […]

The cloud to the north of the sun is a color no name can name. I refrain from the blasphemy  […]

“a caretaker of a building” I never cleaned a church. There was always a janitor, some parishioner who took care […]

“I love that tree, ” he said. You have to know a stretch  of woods to say that.  Have to […]

Like some monk, I pull the hood over my head, the top of it above my eyes obscuring and focusing […]

I almost said, “My body has betrayed me.” This disease I never thought of possessing me. I hesitate such an […]

It is hard to recognize who is looking  back at me when I stand before  a mirror.  The body distorts […]

I will be watching the sun melt the snow. Some may think there’s more important things to do but I’ve […]

I wonder how the gravestones  have worn in that cemetery in Rising Son, behind  The Church of the Brethren. Mom […]