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Previous Love
Previous love, / think of the sky / above us still, / the parade / of clouds here, / he starlit evening / there
June 2011Weighing The Dog
It’s been months / since mud’s been stuck / to his paws, longer / since I’ve had to comb / any burs or ticks / from his thinning coat.
May 2011Newborn, Brovetto Farm
Just under the dairy / farm’s hayloft, / a four-day-old calf, / big, soft, earth- / colored eyes, / looked exhausted, / slightly affronted
May 2011To The Tender
Midsummer, and along came a hapless jay — / blue and wobbling — flight feathers nothing more / than pins of white.
April 2011Love Shack
The only room in the house we can heat properly becomes the only room where I’ll let you undress me.
March 2011Selected Poems
— from “A Prayer” | If it weren’t for Mary, who knows all too well my oblivious nature, / I’d never have noticed those tiny, crepuscular creatures / floating around in the dogs’ water bowls.
March 2011Beneath The Sky, The Longing
Bhutan, 2010 | At the top of the Thimphu hills the sun leaves its afterbirth everywhere, / prayer flags drench the pines, / a monk scampers away like a red fox
March 2011Marginalia
This book I’m reading now my mother read / and loved. You can get this close to the dead / and no closer.
March 2011
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