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Poetry and the Contemporary World

"I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me."

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“Beyond Baroque” poems

"Creeley to Claudia once" said, You're a young diPrima, the one-eyed to the almond-eyed ____________ "Crows in Santa Monica" (thinking...

Responsorial of mine

"Che sola a me par donna" (Petrarch) _____________ The little I do out of ardent love for utterly little if I love! and see it merge with...

Wittgenstein’s lion (4)

in loving, says for as long as you're dear you're still something to die for. How? Always available, always there you veer into a...

Wittgenstein’s lion (5)

says, in a troubled mood, if I pass into flesh, as if, or for as long as you do run & stupidly look like two elands locked in fear,...

Wittgenstein’s lion (8)

says of the corporeity of love, if we see each other as two imperishable wholes and hide our twin thirsts, & it seems we do; and if it...

The cat man of Aleppo (2)

When they’re out of his fields, and the lone husky heart of the cat-saint takes one in , look on a bit & wait. The two or three others,...

The cat man of Aleppo (4)

The cat-saint says,” If I cannot follow him to the damp & dark from which he comes, cradled first in the needle bed and rocks-- then then...

The cat man of Aleppo (5)

The cat-saint, reflecting on one in particular, finds time to say, “Rains can't wither tails any more nor a tabby's puff-cheeks, powdery...

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