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LISTENING I was falling asleep, wondering how to describe a poet’s studio, when a voice said, “You have to be your own a...

1. Little dog stretching his middle for easy grasping. 2. Gazebo and brown leaves. 3. Preternatural toddlers. 4. Diagonal geese. 5. Som...

(for Christian) Even though my grandfather said, Don't talk about doing something, just do the thing, I will tell you that I was excited...

I only know its outsized bow was treacherous upon the mind. Little boots of leather. Bootie things with bitten ...

(Thanks, Annmarie.)

It is probably difficult for a "normal," probing mind to recognize that to seek is to lose, for seeking presupposes a separation b...

(for Doug Steward) I guess you're in your airplane now, having chosen a ritual leather helmet and a bearskin rug for ceremonial reverb. ...

1. Twelve-hour "nap." (Is it morning or night?) 2. Japanese food. 3. Robert Thurman talk. 4. Staying in the gaze. 5. Kind wo...

Some days I wake up blessed but go to sleep far from grace. Other days, the opposite. The crazy guy in the courtyard doing his crazy laugh...

("The Bomb." Image from artcritical.com) This is from her NY Times obituary : Kiki Smith, one of the many younger...

He's all like, "My Mother Would Be a Falconress." ("Poems about Birds.")

Always good advice.

Check out Karen Dietrich's poems . Also, I like the way this guy says the word "smoke."

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Apply this soothing gel made from roots and branches to your forearms when you wake up warrior style and run fist-first to the kitchen in yo...