some solace when the mice chew through the rafters & open / the sky to our song
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Category: Poetry
I’ve Counted Wild Branches for the Dead
I am fine by daylight. Nighttime / brings the raccoons’ nest / / ripped from its high wedge
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every / consonant fleshed me alleluias, / furtively splintering my calico / shape
Lost Dream at 72
white-hulled, white-winged, spirit birds / becalmed in time
Love
There is nothing to be done / but kneel down, like this, and bear witness.
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Hurts you, doesn’t it? Every last thing. / Those endings. Each page, a paper cut. / / Godx is nearer than you can imagine. / Godx is never close enough.
Words for Levitation
Can you put your hands around me like a muffler, season of grapes soaking in oak, season of crows, season of your husked voice whispering across the sheets, are you naked? Â Will you touch me first?
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I put my faith in algebra. / And Wallace Stevens, of course, / / his quantum heresies, his dominion, / coffee and oranges
Where I’m Heading
Inside, two pews made / from wooden pallets / the sea coughed up, an altar / of bleached driftwood
Psaltery & Lyre 