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Excerpts from a talk with A., who I've known for 20 years "You always reminded me of an anchorite . Just in graduate school....

April Afternoon, I Want to Sleep (with apologies to Jorge Guillen and James Wright) chains their slow descending the walk there and back...

That Bluet Breaks Me Up (for J.S.) "The day gets slowly started." --James Schuyler I guess April's pretty cruel. No one can q...

Birth Announcement "do you,/ a girl from kansas/ imagine the invisible changes/ in front of you?" --Jim Carroll I'm not sure w...

Found Poem: Mom's Facebook Status Update Karol Ross just broke the paper weight thingy that served to stand papers up so you can see ...

NYC Barreling down the sidewalk with a swagger and a limp

Here We Are in Tunnels Again The sounds of track and glimpses of blue and white lights are some shared memory of before. We could have found...

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Little Edie, Valiant Fed the several cats their luncheon, spied the growth through opera glasses-- the best blue scarf one's ever owned ...

It is pleasant to stumble In the Smoky Mountains it is pleasant to stumble if someone with oversized hands catches you in his hands like bas...

Kansas How a heaviness of my spirit pulled against the lightness of the air. How that was my home.

I am going to write drafts of poems every day this month for Poetry Month. Then I'll go back and work with them later. I kept flip-flo...

[photo: http://www.k-state.edu/english/nelp/purple/photographs.html] Her prose poem "News" (1961) makes me so happy I don't k...

1. I couldn't remember the phrase "negative capability" when I was teaching. What does that mean? 2. A man came by with a s...

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