No longer light, but not yet dark, We stand here in some space between And listen to a meadow lark; Last year she sang so sweet and keen...

I. Leaves of crispy gold and red drift softly from the sky, falling down to the frozen ground without a sound, to shrivel up and die –...

Lay down your armor And play for me your precious lyre; And let me hear Your deepest dreams and frail desires. Lay down your armor And...

Barbarous Captivity The stone confines the angel’s shape; It grips her hands with awful might; It clutches at her supple nape And hinders...

(adapted from a Tibetan folktale) In times long-past, there lived a band Of monkeys in a forestland, And as they rambled roundabout, They...

Old Nights Was it incubus or succubus who – groggy, doe-eyed – walked me through the fine rain, sleeping? Older now, still wet from then,...

Small Child Small child with my eyes return my heart before you wander. Take the jewels. I wish you plenty. Place a flower’s petals...

Soldiers make quick work of life; Quick as the slipping of a knife They abandon mother, child and wife And are no more. To them the...

Who goes there, wandering About the mists and the rains? Among the alpine crests And mountains’ crystal streams? A Chinese mountain man...

Time to recount the sparrows of the air. Seated alone on an elected stair, I stare as they appear and disappear. Tonight the deck...

A Sailor's Song I’m going to sail the ocean I’m going to sail the sea I’m going to find my one true love And bring her home to me. I’ll...

It was the eyes that first ensnared my sight, As if through the hazy, gray years were glowing, Like beacons in my soul’s long wandering...

The fields stretch out, bare, icy: __Wide, blank, yet-unetched slates, Tabulae rasae, waiting __The chisel of the Fates, But deep beneath...

Beware utopia’s demented choirs. Their melodies, with sweet, seductive splendor, Inflaming Man’s fantastical desires For liberty from...

Life is like a waking dream, Ripples on a fading stream, It has laughter, it has crying— A beginning and an ending. It's dear like a...

Come, Darkness Come, Darkness, Wrap me in your ebon mantle as a shroud. Freed from wearied weariness may I find peace Lost within the...

Colosseum Reverie She’s ruined, though her shadows dwell, Forever reaching for the light, And crumbling blocks of travertine Still mourn...

Insurrection She has become as the night—listening for rumors of dawn—while the dew, glistening, reminds me of her, and the wind,...

When my time has come And helium Weighs down on my exhausted core, Spent from shedding light Through the endless night Until the fuel...

The dreams I had have been forgotten now— The dreams I once believed I knew were true— The dreams I know will haunt me every day— The...