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From the trees beside me / a hawk emerges, / falling horizontally / toward Bradley Falls.
— from “1.”
February 1976Selected Poems
It slips through us / a parade of delicate / dead women that carry / the sun in the August sky
— from “End of Summer”
February 1976Aquarian Meditation
Shades of the winter moon / distill the sky / into a foretaste of the arising: / the emergent forest tapestry / of dissonant souls / harmonizes.
February 1976the palm-leaf
alone. / the harsh beauty. / salt waves / strike the sandward grain. / the palm-leaf / totters at the edge
February 1976Earth as a planet needs tending to
One cant love without fear of exposing / tender parts to pain, nor can one leave / love to feeling incomplete, to make sense / from pain, never-ending, like glare.
February 1976Mer de Glace
Under ice / we breathe in shrunken sentences, / locked in / by the firn dome overhead / moving through our white sleep / like a clock’s hour hand.
February 1976Recognition
The world becomes another / story. I see nothing so clearly / as myself, and that / smudged. The mirror I took / for a wife has run off / with my eyes.
February 1976
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