Foam

on the other side of the door,
in a house without a floor
I cried to the reticent air

how can you have no stair
that I some entrance may make
in a dream moss green as a lake

or why does the only key
fall into the skies,
away from me

should I wear violets,
lost at sea, weaving far from memory,
the dress of mermaid foam

who could not call earth, 'home'.

Moire, it was mine,
this shell of Time;
these things that shine

or were...
submerged in a dredge of Pearl-
dissolving world oh world

in the twilight hour
not more than this:
fern music curled

in a little mist;

pine branch, in a milk white
circlet of stones
where the ending has to die alone
rose sessions adjourned

with the fine thing I learned
the flower pot breaks

Forever to make,
that I thy poem
Thee may not forsake.

mary angela douglas 31 march 2019 

That Children May No Longer

for children trapped in wishing wells
for all of my hushed nightingales
for the carrion crow that caws from the bleachers:
carry this up to God in a silver slipper
that children may no longer
live among thorns.

Mary Angela Douglas 26 march 2019

Tears Of Sleeping Birds (final draft)

[de lacrimis Christi

tears of sleeping birds this evening I heard or read

from the National Geographic blurb, tears of sleeping

birds on rare occasions…

moths sip the tears of sleeping birds in Brazil.

do they get their fill I wondered of salt,

of the disappeared too early.

it seemed so fairy tale real, disturbing

embroideries wrung from a fanciful tree

miraculously inferred; subconsciously

a wilderness resonance brought to bloom

vibration set, to crystal tuned and shattering:

the one gold leafed in an

unsettling country

milk and honey dried

where something dear has died

where coral moths are sought

and seldom caught sipping the

tears of sleeping birds.

what do the birds dream then.,

that there is no more sorrow

in the world?

or the utmost burglary possible

has been sanctioned.

the heart is a lake that rises

for the small bird fluttering in its sleep

incapable of the grief necessary.

who will deliver me now

from the fugitive years ahead

where nothing more can be said, referred to

but “the tears of sleeping birds…".

shall we quaff a thimbles worth

for everything on earth, for

what remains in that refrain-

that suddenly am I reminded of

like a safe broken into, with all the codes of

rectitude, of a trembling name or two;

an exquisite residue

dewdrop poised on a branch

as if it were Song:

before the sign of the dark sun;

Nadezhda Mandelstam

speaking of herself and Akhmatova

after Osip had gone said,

in those days we had no tears left…

trembling over a handful of poems.

the moths, drinking their tears.

the moths, drinking their tears.

mary angela douglas 24 january 2019;rev. 17 march 2019

As Centuries Gather Light

the wind fills up the pictures made of snow,
the silver brushed air
and everywhere it falls it lifts

the shadows from the avenues
from the roofs of sleeping houses
from the hydrants

and the moonlit overpass
it feels like sugar sifting through
the tall grasses

sugar without the sweetness or stickiness,
it does not cling;
and it falls over the lanes carelessly

without neatness
or compunction

till all is numb and no longer singing.
only the wind sings
only the wind speaks

and the snow is deep
as centuries, gathering light.

mary angela douglas 23 march 2019

Technical Writing: A Short Lament

I write in cherry filling
they write me back:
potato. no butter pat.

I write in curlicue frosting.
they only write in bossing.
day after day in a cubicle way

I'm bursting with so many things to say
not in addendums.
why can't I win them

over to a merrier way
cordially yours at least
with or without the cherries.

more than the crumbs
from the board room feast
in sleeting January.

mary angela douglas 18 march 2019

Promotion

I dreamed the Lord God put Marc Chagall
in charge of snowfalls.
Imagine how it all looked coming down

in candied colours all over town
and in the hills
how rainbows melted and refroze

above the rills.

mary angela douglas 18 march 2019

Everything Is Not A Contest If You Don't Want It To Be

everything is not a contest
if you don't want it to be
I don't want it to be.

what if they held auditions for the birds
what if some birds didn't make the cut
how triste we would be.

the forests filled with pared down song
maybe two. tops, three. what would the mute birds do
limited to:

whatever wasn't previously sung.

why should you wait for months
to hear back from the magazines
till Kingdom come

when you can go anywhere

in the great outdoors
maybe to the canyons
and recite for free

I like canyons better than magazines.
think of the echoes.
the resonance. the company

of blooming cacti keeping their secrets.
they know how it feels to be patient
awaiting their flowering, published to the winds.

patience doesn't really even come into it.

not being compared. not worrying about
first serial rights.they can fare.
friends with the starry nights

unaware of the contradictions and the spite
of trying to prove in a dry spell
to the resident cognescenti

they really are capable of flowering.
meanwhile they defend themselves
from condescending smiles

with their prickles like Exupery's rose.
well, they might.they could. who knows.
really, they don't have to do anything.

just wait for the desert Spring.
isn't that something worth singing about?

flower on your own. crawling to no throne.
you will know
the happiness of not being paid in copies.

not bartering your Manhattan for trinkets.
of singing because you want to.
painting or dreaming.

skipping in the lanes.
sans the workshop disdain.

the grim reengineering
right within your hearing
for the MFA.

stand in the clearing.
far from the fray.

joy is better that way.

sound never dies they say.
already you would be immortal
sing song saying it

even in your dust bunnied room.
even in a tomb.

due to the laws of sonics.
happy in your phonics.

barely whisper your latest sonnet
to a crowd of angels...

sound never dies. nor music.
music in God, the trefoil union intact.
the heart singing all on its own

undeterred, silvery perhaps,unbeknownst.
like a ghost.
in its own mystique.

proofread by no creep;
poor editor with no sleep.

a heightening mirage

leaving its sound print, invisible track upon
the open universe soaring above the pines

so that the leaves sigh.the upper atmosphere.
clouds in their vagueness;
the air, bursting with wings

and turquoise.

mary angela douglas 18 march 2019

Learning

LEARNING


gold flakes off the sun
or stardust streams from the once upons
and suddenly you stand inside the crystal.
not outside, looking at the diagram again, uncomprehending.
or feel on your face the winds of Athens,
Shakespeare rising
and you, the Dialogues, you are the plays, each one
as though you spoke each word in your sleep originally.
or it's bright midsommer on a jam coloured day
when you feel called inside the treasure heaped caves
eluding chores
and wander in...
the dream within the dream and Calderon...
oh life, the fleeting the beautiful has come and gone
and now returned, you hear the light leaves murmur
in their song that you like Shelley are the King of clouds.
or Queen of the May or the Saint envisioning the
curative fountains, directed to find them
on some Saturday...
what century am I today you feel like Alice
still in the same blue dress wondering at her desk that
then the strawberries gleamed too
in Junes and children sat in school
reciting golden numbers feeling metrics
like the drone of bees outside the open windows
sanguine amid the flowers
till called to attention. in their new school shoes
from such reveries...on the eve of undeclared war
or simple as cream, the walking out the doors
to waiting trains;
the winter seeds sown.
let us revisit these scenes
all  the way down to their sunless seas
the Christmas ghost pleads (or Coleridge, who knows)
and you go with them  through the clouded dells
to all that you could never spell
or with the Blessed Damozel
to forgotten wishing wells, or come upon shelves unshelved of
untranslated biographies
in fragments, seraphs in tears
for all the unrecorded years...

one star upon a stone
that sang out:"Christ!" along a tolling road
and you elucidating, on your way, your own
while some take orders for a seamless garment

the cost of dreams the cost of dreams the cost of dreams


mary angela douglas 16 march 2019...

LETTER TO THE DEAR READER AND INDEX OF POEMS PART ONE

NOTE: The poems on THIS list are listed, most recent first AS POSTED AND IN DESCENDING ORDER: FROM JULY 2019 DOWN TO JULY 2006.

FOR POEMS WRITTEN AND POSTED AFTER JULY 2019, PLEASE SEE INDEX 2, POEMS IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE DATING FROM AUGUST 2019 AND CONTINUING FORWARDS... THANK YOU!!!


Dear Reader,

A heartfelt poetry welcome to you.
Just type the title into the space at the bottom of the month by month archives and after the Links in the right margin where it says: “SEARCH THIS BLOG” and hit Enter.  This will bring up the poem you have requested from the list of poems that follows this letter. Also you can click on any of the labels on the upper right hand side of your screen and find surprise poems. You will see what I mean if you do so.

You can also click on the ten entries under Popular Posts which represent poems people have liked the most over the last 30 days.  And even though they are "popular" they are not at all "stuck up" because I would smack them if they were. (I am their mother, so to speak)

If it doesn't (bring them up), you can look at the poems by month and year under the blog archives. After you click on month and year under archives you would just keep clicking on older posts at the bottom of the page until you found the title you were looking for. 

If you don’t wish to do this, scroll past this list to where the poems begin and just click on Older Posts when you reach the bottom of the page and you can go through the poems chronologically that is from most recent posts and back.  If this doesn't work, just pray. That's my general rule for everything and it has often helped me so I endow you with it, too. (if you need endowing).(I forgot to say you can also enter the title of the poem you wish for in the little window in the top left hand of the screen).

And if you find as you read the titles of the poems that some will loom larger, while others shrink smaller,and some with a Cheshire smile just fade out of view-then just remember Alice and especially remember that she got out of it all alive and still with cheerful demeanor or at least no one ever said: otherwise. You will too. (Get out of it all alive.) God said so.

For all family, friends and teachers past, present, and future.  God bless and keep you on your way.

And eternally to the Russian poets Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam and Boris Pasternak who continued singing their personal, highly individual music, lyrical poetry from their own souls as before God at the risk not only of personal reputation, but life itself in the face of political propaganda and ill-conceived conformity, massive cruelty, in other words, in the mouth of hell they did not rebrand themselves. Why should they? They were already the poets they were supposed to be and they knew it.

Anyone wishing to write their own poems, famous or not, take heart. The people who love poetry the most are not always only the people with their name up in lights. It matters that you write poetry if you deeply feel to do so. If you deeply feel to do so, you are a poet no matter what anyone says.

Use the internet to share your poems,if you wish especially poemhunter.com. It (poemhunter)is a very kind and friendly website. I would suggest as well as wordpress.com, blogger.com and there are others. God keep you safe. You don't have to tolerate bullies criticizing your poems. If this happens to you, just leave that site. Many blogs allow you to delete trashy comments.

I also must confess the poet I love the best beyond all other poets (as so many do, I know) is Rainer Maria Rilke who also famously fell in love with Russia.

And I am deeply inspired by Valerie Macon, briefly, poet laureate of North Carolina for her bravery under fire, unfailing kindness and her deep abiding love for poetry and for the worth of self published and amateur poets not only throughout our state, but, I believe, the world. She is the real deal, as we say in American English.

May all countries and ethnicities, let me make a distinction here on which everything depends - all individuals - find and hold onto through every difficulty the God-given languages of beauty and of the heart as you did, for the sake of God and for the peace and innocence of all our children.

And may we find the dream language beyond all sorrows that will not allow us to abandon hope and the home that the arts provide us glimpsing as Yeats said so wonder-filled, “Eternal Beauty, wandering on her way.”

Best wishes, thoughts and prayers to anyone finding this blog on purpose or coincidentally.  I hope my poems make you happy. Although I am unable to answer comments at this time, I read every comment sent to me,  God Bless You (from my “family” to yours!). And still I mull over all the ones who can't leave my heart, my poems: The Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Walter De La Mare, RAY BRADBURY...

May you always speak and be spoken to in diamonds, never toads. (See the poem Note from Home, Years Later, in Reply to a Note from School if you wish, for further explanation, or the Peruault Fairytale I was initially inspired by which is called either Toads and Diamonds or Diamonds and Toads but which I am calling Toads and Diamonds so that my last word to you here can be a diamond.) 

Mary Angela Douglas

BRIEF VIDEOS APPEAR WITH THE POET RECITING THE POEM FOR

 THE FOLLOWING ENTRIES:

As If It Could Be That Way
Blake
Speaking English 
Another Crystal Ship Is Going Down
Particoloured Tears Are Falling Through the Evening Blind
Going North
Cinderella. Cendrillon

POEMS POSTED FROM JULY 2006-JULY 2019

For Ireland Always (july 2019)

Your Slanted Chalkboard Writing Tells The Tale (july 2019)

Though The Snow Melts At The Poles (july 2019)

Publish It To The Air (july 2019)

It Is A Marvel After All These Wars (july 2019)

The Moon At My Window For Free (july 2019)

The Dream Of The Apples She Will Not Forsake (july 2019)

As If The Trees Could Not Help Us Or Dystopia In Its Meager Hour (july 2019)

Corner Of The Sky (july 2019)

How Much They Had To Bear (july 2019)

On The Veracity Of Fairy Tales (Final Draft) (july 2019)

Going Back Were We Crossing The Dream Meridians (july 2019)

On Signs That Point No Way Or Signing The Unsigned (july 2019)

Conflations (july 2019)

Transparent (july 2019)




Every Poem Is A Frontier (july 2019)

Yes We Will (july 2019)

On Worrying About Nothing (july 2019)

The Talking Doll Goes To The Job Fair (july 2019)



To The Minor Poets In A Heartless Hour, Speaking Love To Power (july 2019)

The Sea Maid's Reminiscence (july 2019)

The Seeing Heart And The Scarecrow Rendered In Charcoal (july 2019)

What Is Impossible To Say In Words (july 2019)

Let's Analyze Little Kids To Pieces (july 2019) 

She Explains To The Uncomprehending Her Predilection For The Romantics (july 2019)

It Won't Be The Way You Heard It On The News (july 2019)

Cold Reading;Not To Be Resumed (july 2019)

Hushed To Me Are The Names The Rain Gives (july 2019)

Where We Live (july 2019)

Every Poet Thinks He Owns The Colour Red (july 2019)

The Goose Girl Praised (july 2019)

Why Can't They Tell Me (july 2019)

The Atmosphere In The Room Explained (At The Micless Open Mic) (july 2019)

115 North Monroe (july 2019)

Beautiful Heartbreak (june 2019)

Stone Gardens (june 2019)

Goodbye My Jeanne (reposted)

What Will Remain (june 2019)

Walkout (june 2019)

On The Mirrors Of Arvo Part And His Departures (second version) (june 2019)

White Jade (second version) (june 2019)

Does Light Grow (june 2019)

Epiphany Of The White Apples (second version) (june 2019)

I Know You Will (june 2019)

Choose (june 2019)

Peppermint Stick Revue (june 2019)

Cloud Song To William Blake (june 2019)

Make It Turn Out That Way (june 2019)

Confused, Tangled With Starlight (june 2019)

Sadness Comes In Waves, I Said (june 2019)

Who Is Singing It (june 2019)

Three Birds Arose In A Rose Dawn (june 2019)

Upon Their Banished Names (june 2019)

Some Summer (june 2019)

The Last Word That You Said (june 2019)

Song For the Last Interview (reprised: June 10, 2019)

Turning The Pink Hydrangeas Blue And Vice Versa (june 2019)

The Island Of Floating Away (june 2019)

Incident On A Train (june 2019)

Waiting (june 2019)

Baby Doll's Silver Tap Shoe Song (june 2019)

He Doesn't Like Magic (june 2019)

I Saw The Light Of Everything That Lives (may 2019)


Waiting Your Turn At The Open Mic With Light Refreshments Served (may 2019)

There Is No Wilderness (may 2019)

Van Gogh Seen Sideways, Or From Great Distances, Abstracted, Influenced By Kabakov

Esse Quam Videri (may 2019)

Dispensations (may 2019)

The Rising (may 2019)

On Coming Upon The Phrase "Rosa Mystica" (may 2019)

Knowing Better Doesn't Solve It (may 2019)

Today My Boat Had Golden Sails (may 2019)

Something (may 2019)

The Blind Artist (may 2019)

We Live On (may 2019)

Who Are We That You Should Squander (may 2019)

This And The Thimbles Scattered (final version) (may 2019)

This And The Thimbles Scattered (may 2019)

In The Country (may 2019)

Missing Old Phone Booths, Pay Phones (may 2019)

In Case (final draft) (may 2019)

In Case (may 2019)

A Beautiful Narrative Stalls (april 2019)

Little Bug (april 2019)

Meditation On Tithing (april 2019)

The Green Waning (april 2019)

I Will Mourn In Small Bells (april 2019)

Sour Puss Press, Give It A Rest;Or Minimalism Was Ever A Dead Door Nail (april 2019)

The Light Preserved In The Installation (april 2019)


This Jigsaw Piece Of Cloud (april 2019)

Something Was Taken From The Sky (april 2019)

How Do You Know (april 2019)

My Poem Has Manners (april 2019)

Things Have Fallen (april 2019)

Wouldn't You Like? (april 2019)

I Weep For The Great Cathedral (a reflection)
(april 2019)

Admixture of Kabakov, Ilya (and Notre Dame)
(april 2019)

Aftermath Of A Cathedral

Beauty Itself Is Burning Down: To Notre Dame

Late Summer (april 2019)

We'll Find Ruby Slippers For The Dolls (april 2019)

Reflet Dans L'eau (april 2019)

The Rains Are Sweeping The Canyons While We're All Inside (april 2019)

I Had A Golden Necklace (april 2019)

Awake (april 2019)

After the Russian (april 2019)

Foam (march 2019)

That Children May No Longer (march 2019)

Tears Of Sleeping Birds (final draft) (march 2019)

As Centuries Gather Light (march 2019)

Technical Writing: A Short Lament (march 2019)

Promotion (march 2019)

Everything Is Not A Contest If You Don't Want It To Be (march 2019)

Learning (march 2019)

Where We Hide (march 2019)

Pink And Green (march 2019)

Into The Booklands (Or Something Lilacs Said)
(march 2019)

Star (february 2019)

America. To Love Again (february 2019)

So This Is (february 2019)

What We Thought Then (february 2019)

Shall We Anchor Ourselves In Clouds (february 2019)

Perfections Of The Evening (february 2019)

People Like Me (february 2019)

The Poem Bird Nested In The Rafters Of Dream (february 2019)

We Seek In Tears The Passage Of Our Years (february 2019)

I Dreamed I Was The Precision Of Stars (february 2019)

When Will We Melt Away (february 2019)

We Are So Rooted Here (february 2019)

Spelling (february 2019)

Straight Whistle Clean Through The Valentine Heart Of God (february 2019)

I Wish I Could (february 2019)

Returning (february 2019)

The Summer Of Words (february 2019)

The Time Of Cherries (february 2019)

Being In The World (january 2019)

The Slamming Of Doors;Its Effect On The Soul (january 2019)

God By The Numbers (january 2019)

Air In A Box (january 2019)

Tears Of Sleeping Birds (january 2019)*removed in draft form, march 17 2019.

A Sky Made Of Nightingales (january 2019)

Whatever Song I Know (january 2019)

Losing The Beautiful Language Tear By Tear (revised january 2019)

History In Heaven (revised january 2019)

You Barrel Through Your Lists Of Things To Do (january 2019)

Goodbye To The Toys,We Say Sorry To The Bears (january 2019)

While Filling Out Forms She Thinks Of Other Things (rev. january 2019)

From A Strawberry Sky/Too Long At The Fair (january 2019)

She Was Also True (january 2019)

I Smile Into Far Distances (january 2019)

The Pause In The Music: What It Means
(january 2019)

Can The Wind Breathe (january 2019)

Different Than We Were Before (january 2019)

Stranded (january 2019)

Into The Blue (january 2019)

Yevtushenko In Heaven Was Said To Have Said (january 2019)

An Angel In Coral Or Carmine Headlong (january 2019)

Blue Gardens (january 2019)

Sometimes In The Absence Of Light (january 2019)

Epiphany Of The White Apples (january 2019)

If Time Were A Spinning Top We Saw (january 2019)

Still To Be Dreaming (december 2018)

I Celebrate Construction Paper Chains (december 2018)

All Life (december 2018)

They Would All Find Out (december 2018)

People Were Hamming It Up/The Moon Like A Marble (december 2018)

For The Angels Dressed In Green (december 2018)

The Case For Being Made Flower Girls Instead (december 2018)

Leaving The Maps Unfolded (december 2018)

A Christmas Wish Remembered (december 2018)

I Look Behind (december 2018)

Leaving The Great Pronouncements On The Floor (december 2018)

To The Waxworks Going Down, The Soul In Flames (december 2018)

The Clown In Tears, Nor Riding The Rails (december 2018)

Perhaps She Was Born To Illumine Small Corners (december 2018)

Music In Heaven (december 2018)

The Carol To Crystal Towers, Winston Salem, Christmas, 2018 (december 2018)

Over The Boughs Of April Floats (december 2018)

What We Learned In The Blue Winds (december 2018)

They Always Lived (december 2018)

Russian Poetry Of A Certain Era (december 2018)

While Filling Out Forms, She Thinks Of Other Things (december 2018)

Russian Folklore At A Glance (december 2018)

Maybe We'll Find Lost Cities In The Snow (december 2018)

The Stars And Other Considerations (december 2018)

Maybe You Will Be (december 2018)

Things Could Be Worse (december 2018)

The Beautiful, Not The Useful (december 2018)

Only Because We Built The Dream Cities (december 2018)

History In Heaven (november 2018)

Nothing Is More Beautiful Than The Sky (november 2018)

Downtown's Coming Along, But The Ghosts Complain (november 2018)

Losing The Beautiful Language Tear By Tear (november 2018)

Cotillion (november 2018)

Maybe One Day We'll All Go Back To Oz (november 2018)

Beautiful Obscurity I Have Come To Know (november 2018)

Triste (november 2018)

I Would Like A Small Castle You Said (november 2018)

Your Least Gesture In The Snow (november 2018)

Music And Chains (november 2018)

Christmas At The End Of It (november 2018)

Reveille Or Something Like (november 2018)

Veering Off From Homework, Studying For The Test On Monday (november 2018;rev.january 2019)

Stone Upon Stone, And Then The Rose Windows (november 2018)

Art Song 1 (november 2018)

Still On The Map Of The World (november 2018)

The Poem Is At The End Of A Road (november 2018)
                                         
Let's Move Away From Earth(october 2018)

How Will They Manage The Clouds I Dreamed (october 2018)

God Is Not A Game Show Host (october 2018)

For Buzz Aldrin (october 2018)

Bright Penny, Rolled Out Of Sight (october 2018)

Face To Face With Reality, As They Say(october 2018)

Greater Than Your Disease (october 2018)

This Strange And Transient Hour (october 2018)

Waiting For The News To Come (october 2018)

The Ash Tree Is Weeping I Said To My God (october 2018)

Interruption In Pink (october 2018)

A Prayer For Thumbelina (october 2018)

He Cried Inside (october 2018)

Those Who Understood Orion (october 2018)

Winter Song From The Snow Queen (october 2018)

Poem To Sharon, Through The Looking Glass Of Time(october 2018)

On Saint Saens "Aquarium" From The Carnival Of The Animals (october 2018)

Landscape In Pink Chalk And Green, That Dream (october 2018)

Helping The Less Fortunate,Some Notes On The Subject (october 2018)

The Fairy Tale Not In The Corrected Edition (october 2018)

In October, Commemorating Ray (final draft) (october 2018)

Here's To The Candy Corn! (october 2018)

John Keats Between, What Is Written, What Is Dreamed (october 2018)

On The Princess Aurora, Certain Lies (october 2018)

Drifting Into God (september 2018)

That I May Be (september 2018)

Who Wouldn't Have Wanted (september 2018)

Otherwise (september 2018)

The Dreaming Room (september 2018)

What To Pack In An Emergency (september 2018)

I Could Weep For Joy (september 2018)

Postcard To My Sister From The Magic Kingdom (september 2018/rev. 4 december 2018)

To The Beautiful City In Waiting (september 2018)

The Black Evening Gown With The Single Rose Found (september 2018)

The Jeweled Way Is Gone (september 2018)

Be At Rest. The Ark Has Landed (september 2018)

I Saw The Ghosts of Roses Rise (september 2018)

Hyping The Hurricane (september 2018)

Codes (september 2018)

Let The Waters Go Down (september 2018)

It Was Not The Way They Said It Would Be (september 2018)

Some Days I Just Want This (september 2018)

Lo How A Rose On The Down Low (september 2018)

Even If We Are Scattered (september 2018)

After Awhile (september 2018)

Hildegaard (september 2018)

Forgive Me If I Remain Ignorant (august 2018)

Wanted: A Small Room (august 2018)

You Were That Child (august 2018)

Something For Arthur Rubinstein (august 2018)

Gazing At Flowers In My Faded Floral Dress (august 2018)

To Our Lady Poverty (august 2018)

When I Was Queen Of The Paper Doll Stage (My Sister Too) (august 2018)

As I Stood Before The Looking Glass Wood(august 2018)

And The Incoming Tide (august 2018)

The Beautiful Things Not Playing Their Part (august 2018)

Seed Pearl Not The Rose (august 2018)

I Only See (august 2018)

To God My Father In The January Sleet Remembered (august 2018)

The King Of Small Hearts (august 2018)

Learning To Say (august 2018)

I Shall Miss Silver Buttons (august 2018)

Shelley, My Shelley (august 2018)

In The Weeping Hour (august 2018)

Blue, Not The Blue Shading Into Lilac (august 2018)

The Last Afternoon Of De La Mare (august 2018)

Miss Pink Tomato And The Cosmological Constant (august 2018)

History As A Smattering Of Science, Birds Without Wings (august 2018)

The Customary Custard In The Steam Filled Cafeteria (august 2018)

The Mind Was Filled With Clouds, Angels, Hearts (august 2018)

At Court With The Emperor In The Darwinian Dusk (august 2018)

There Must Be Millions Of Poems About The Flowers(august 2018)

Radiant Nonetheless (august 2018)

The Dog Star, The Dog Speaking In Puppy All About It (august 2018)

It's Not Illium But It Still Feels That Way (august 2018)

Wreathed In Blue Violet I Have Sung (august 2018)

To Gleam From Lost Towers (august 2018)

We Have Hidden The Word In Clouds(august 2018)

Emily Hovering Slightly In The Semi-Conscious Classroom (august 2018)

The Playhouse As It Was Then (july 2018)

Pink Christmas Trees, A Fond Remembrance(july 2018)

Tertullian Amid The Sunflowers (july 2018)

Let All The Schools Be Schools Of Dream (july 2018)

Holograms I Have Seen (july 2018)

The Shipwreck Of Language Said The Talking Dolls (july 2018)

I Fell Off The Cliff Of Learning (july 2018)

I Fell Off The Cliff Of Learning Into The Honied Day (july 2018)

I Thought The Dreamers Of Things Had Come (july 2018)

The Poets Boarding The Ship Relinquish Their Images (july 2018)

Chekovian, My Cherry Jubilee (july 2018)

My Last Testament To The Jewel Encrusted Skies (july 2018)

Mothlike, Lucunae, The Poets Gone (july 2018)

Dark Ages;Where Is The Stained Glass Moon (july 2018)

Things As They Are In Our Town, Your Town, Too (july 2018)

I Wonder (july 2018)

Angels Pulling Strings (july 2018)

Folk Song For A Prize Winning Age (july 2018)

Some Things (july 2018)

It's The Pink Linen Napkins (july 2018)

Play Something On The Violin For Rilke (Final Draft) (july 2018)

American Clearing(july 2018)

Things Happen (july 2018)

Drifting (july 2018)

When Consciousness Returns (july 2018)

Reading The Cloud Signatures (july 2018)

Under The Reeded Roads They Passed (july 2018)

I Love The Dream Languages Disappearing Into The Mists (july 2018)

Choke Cherry Blues And News (july 2018)

In The Year Of My Favorite Saints(july 2018)

St. Exupery Over The Waters Of Time (july 2018)

Marisol In Winter Sunlight (july 2018)

Apocalyptic, Isn't It;Calypso Like(july 2018)

In Exorbitant Moonlight Shining, Or When They Allowed Us To Stay Up Past The Usual Bedtime (july 2018)

The Way We Remembered It Then (july 2018)

The White Dress. The One Netted With Stars (july 2018)

Ah, No. (july 2018)

My Islands Pink And Green (june 2018)

Lemonade Shade (june 2018)

After William Blake (I Saw The Crystal Apple Fall) (june 2018)

Song For Another Ending (june 2018)

The Test (june 2018)

You're Not Just Looking Out The Window For The Reason You Think You Are (june 2018)

Song To Be Sung In A Time Of Affliction (june 2018)

Except (june 2018)

Station Break For The Guardian Angels (june 2018)

My Grandmother's Studio, Late Afternoon (june 2018)

The Study Of History As Being Out Of Place 
(june 2018)

Trees And Their Shadows(june 2018)

Castaways Of Words Fail Not (june 2018)

The Queens Of Strawberries(june 2018)

When You Were Happy (june 2018)

Bella And Her Flowers;Perhaps, In the Snowlights(june 2018)

Wherein Coppelia Dreamed In Small Fountains And Is Denied Cake (june 2018)

The Queen Of Music (june 2018)

I Went To A Grave Of Clouds (june 2018)

Continents (june 2018)

The Harp (june 2018)

There Was A Language Green As Trees(june 2018)

Why Is History Almost Always (may 2018)

Separated (may 2018)

Reprieved(may 2018)

Homage To The Disappearing (may 2018)

Lost Letter To Rilke(may 2018)

Angels In Their Cloudy Disposition(may 2018)

Sometimes In My Dream There Is A Boat(may 2018)

I Dreamed It Was The Birthday Of The Sun (may 2018)

Dressing For The Occasion (may 2018)

Noel (may 2018)

Hardly Answering The Phones, Then Hanging Up, Or Drifting Away (may 2018)

For Ireland Always (may 2018)

Blue Light Scatters, Apart From The Rose Of Day (may 2018)

Shadows Are Beautiful(may 2018)

On The Removal Of Certain Statues (may 2018)

There's An Angel For Going Out(may 2018)

Aren't You Tired Of Trick Questions On Tests (may 2018)

Jeweled Were The Butterflies On The Bough (may 2018)

Apple Or Orange (may 2018)

Retributions (may 2018)

Palazzo In Pink (may 2018)

Little Red Bells In The Afternoon (may 2018)

Ferias (may 2018)

In The Winter That Was Strange Then, The One Of Legend (may 2018)

Goodbye My Jeanne (may 2018)

Than To Be Truly Happy (may 2018)

Only This Hour(may 2018)

Gold Has Fallen, Gold (may 2018)

Those Who Were Never Told (may 2018)

Morning Glories, Morning's Vine (may 2018)

The Spain Of My Mind, The Wind Of Gold (april 2018)

The Pink Moon Or The Full Flower Moon (april 2018)

To Ray Bradbury, Six Years Gone (april 2018)

We Had Castles, Castles By The Score (april 2018)

To My Mother By The Screen Door Of Heaven, Looking Out (april 2018)

Slippers(april 2018)

Why Should I Be (april 2018)

Famous Among The Dolls (april 2018)

In A Disconsolate Year (april 2018)

The Disinherited(april 2018)

I Win Nothing (april 2018)

Into A Fine Brocade (april 2018)

There Must Have Been A Reason (april 2018)

Bluegrass Colours, Then The Storm Is Past (april 2018)

If We Didn't Have To Go Back (april 2018)

How Not To Live Like The White Rabbit (april 2018)

Could I Ever Truly Live (april 2018)

Secrets (april 2018)

She Only Photographs Clouds (april 2018)

In Memory Of The Birds Of Dream (april 2018)

Throwback(april 2018)

Silver Turrets Beneath The Tufted Clouds (april 2018)

Saints Stood Still In A Blizzard Of Lies (april 2018)

When You Review The Coming Day (april 2018)

What If The Last Dream (april 2018)

Leaf Quiet And Moss Greens (april 2018)

In Blue Evenings Disappearing (april 2018)

It's End Of The World Cloud-Beautiful (april 2018)

Trees Without Language (april 2018)

Do They Cast Flowers There (april 2018)

When You Have Been Away (april 2018)

Folger's Theatre April 4, 1988 8 P.M. Washington, D.C.(march 2018)

How Beautiful They Stand (march 2018)

Paper Airplanes (march 2018)

Categories (march 2018)

Falling Off The Edge Of Sleep (march 2018)

Emily, It Is Getting Late (Second Version) (march 2018)

When God Is Our Grief (march 2018)

Early Rilke (march 2018)

The Kitchen Maid In The Garden (march 2018)

Down At The Not So O.K. Poetry Corral (march 2018)

Identity Is The Music(march 2018)

Still (march 2018)

After The Japanese, To The Memory of the Imagists (march 2018)

Somewhere The Hills Were Blue (march 2018)

A Plan For Making It Through All On Your Own (march 2018)

Stephen Hawking (march 2018)

 To The Fields In Their Summer Flowering (march 2018)

Forever Unable To See The Skies As They Were (march 2018)

The Fairy Tale As It Stands And Bound To Be True (march 2018)

Sometimes It is True That We Are Breathing Sand(march 2018)

Like A Diamond Theme (march 2018)

Thank You Mary Poppins For The Borrowed Parasol (march 2018)

On The Lost Notebooks of Loren Eisley, Ascending Music, The Fawn Coloured Dawns (Second and Final Version)

They See The Palace Up Ahead (march 2018)

Time Slips, Rose Slips, Rain (march 2018)

Reading Wallace Stevens Under The Flowering Trees, 1970

It's All Candlelit And Cordial (march 2018)

On A Springtime Production Of Ionesco's "Exit The King" (Fontbonne College, 1970)

On A Springtime Production Of Ionesco's "Exit The King" (Fontbonne College, 1970)

For A Soldier Known Or Unknown (march 2018)

Will These Toy Pieces, He Said Again (march 2018)

Chronicling Duration On The Glass Hill (march 2018)

To My Sister Eight Years Old At The Piano (march 2018)

She Dreams In Philosophy, Making The Best Of Things (march 2018)

Francis Thompson On The Vision Of Thomas Chatterton (march 2018)

My Dreams Without Documents (march 2018)

There Should Be Faces (march 2018)

Lucinda Leaving The Garden (march 2018)

Vanished (march 2018)

Oh Starry Words (march 2018)

The Evidence Of Stars(march 2018)

The Silence Of Roses (march 2018)

A Door Opens In A Cloud (march 2018)

I Cast My Poems Into The Air, Wild Swans (february 2018)

Sometimes (february 2018)

The Way It Was Put To Me (february 2018)

All That I Can Say (february 2018)

It Is Large (february 2018)

We Might As Well (february 2018)

Mandelstam In Delphenium Twilight, The Painting Of The End (february 2018)

Sapphires (february 2018)

You Don't Have To Know (february 2018)

Into The Unknown Lands (february 2018)

Songs My Mother Taught Me;Also My Grandmother, Grandfather, The Books On The Turquoise Shelves (february 2018)

For Those In Their Vast Slumber (february 2018)

They Snatched Beauty Out Of The Air (february 2018)

The Thing You Find At The Bottom Of The Pile (february 2018)

Green And White (february 2018)

I Think Of Monumental Beauty Often (february 2018)

Taproot (february 2018)

Read This Poem (february 2018)

Think Of A Moment Perfectly Still (february 2018)

When Did You Make This (february 2018)

I Remembered Spanish Music (february 2018)

We Would Have Gone On Living (february 2018)

Oranges, Lemons On The Way To St. Ives (february 2018)

Once It Was Crystal (february 2018)

I Am Displaced Not (february 2018)

Hunting The Wendy Bird (february 2018)

Far Away Is Never Again (february 2018)

Winning (february 2018)

The Soul And Its Deputized Assessor (february 2018)

Still On Earth (february 2018)

Time Strayed Off In Cherry Brocades (february 2018)

The Beautiful Page In Its Snowing I Beheld (february 2018)

Cezanne At The Close Of The Day (february 2018)

The White Ship On The Waters Of Braille(february 2018)

A Ghost Story For Mr. Barrie (Second Version)(february 2018)

Children Were Taking The Toys Of Forever With Them (january 2018)

Falling Off Of The Silver World (january 2018)

It's Like Cherry Quartz (january 2018)

The Flight Of Ideas From Here (january 2018)


The Diamond Wind And Where It Has Gone (january 2018)

Saying Goodbye To The Trees (january 2018)

Cool Days On Earth (january 2018)

Beautiful Shadows (january 2018)

Alicean, Elysian, Waking Earlier (january 2018)

The Mermaid Predictions;The Future Of Snow (Second Version)(january 2018)

All I Hear Them Say (january 2018)

Song For The Last Interview (Final Version) (january 2018)

Song For The Last Interview (Second Version)(january 2018)

What If She Didn't (january 2018)

Whatever They Say (january 2018)

Sugar Candy And The Big Hand's On The Three (january 2018)

To Keep From Breaking Apart (january 2018)

The Fairy Metronome, Snow Child In Decline (january 2018)

Tomorrow Is Fairer Said The Fair (january 2018)

Advice Inscribed On An Ancient Wall (january 2018)

Swan On Swan, The Bitter Tide (january 2018)

More Than Life (january 2018)

I Gathered Fresh Gardenias;You Were Missing (january 2018)

School Spirits (january 2018)

Jumbled Sewing Basket, Green And White Wicker (Second Version)(january 2018)

English Essay, Last Of May (january 2018)

Folksong with No Refrain (january 2018)

Carol for St. Therese;Small Crown of Flowers (january 2018)

Sash Of Cherry Velvet And The Storybook Shade (january 2018)

Not Every Spinning Wheel Wound (january 2018)

It Is Night In The Emerald City (Third Version)(january 2018)

It Is Night In The Emerald City (Second Version)(january 2018)

Nocturne In Blue (january 2018)

The Honied Buttresses Of Light Uphold (january 2018)

Carnation, Lily, Lily Rose (second version) (january 2018)

A Diary On The Underside Of Light (second version) (january 2018)

On The Death Of John Keats (january 2018)

In School Or Out Of It (january 2018)

Music In Words (january 2018)

No More The Languid Ballets (january 2018)

The Soul In Its Turning (january 2018)

The Greatest Living Crime (january 2018)

This Is The Train Doubling Back (january 2018)

In The Dream There Are Neither Keys Nor Locks (january 2018)

Somehow I See Them Anyway (january 2018)

Singular Test Pattern, Prism Breaking Apart (january 2018)

Song To Grandmother Under St. Cecilia's Window (january 2018)

A Sudden Gust (january 2018)

The Bride Doll's Question (january 2018)

In The Eye Of The Marble, Dressed In Blue Crystal (january 2018)

Your Clouds So Opal Inlaid (december 2017)

If We Write (december 2017)

First Flights (december 2017)

It's Watercolour (december 2017)

Beautiful Gravity (december 2017)

And In It, The Sound Of Seas (december 2017)

What Music There Is (december 2017)

To Write In Longhand (december 2017)

Oh Etretat (december 2017)

Then All The Translations Sounded The Same (december 2017)

When All Their Suns Have Set (december 2017)

Of All Things, Hold The Most Dear (december 2017)

December. And The Glaze On The Hour (december 2017)

Snow Dreamed (december 2017)

Thereby Turning The Hours Of Straw To Gold (december 2017)

Sudden Illuminations (december 2017)

My Grandmother Speaks of Heaven (december 2017) 


Waterfall (december 2017)

I Sent A Letter To The Moon (december 2017)

For Lake Wobegon, Disappearing...(december 2017)

Piano (november 2017)

Pink Pearls (november 2017)

Box Store Escape No. 1 (november 2017)

The Starving Minor Poet Before He Finds Himeself (october 2017)

They Had Words Quince Bright (october 2017)

The Pure Contradiction (october 2017)

The Lives Of The Artists, Certain Others (october 2017)

There On The Other Side (october 2017)

The Day That He Made Birds (october 2017)

You Said I See The River Through The Trees (october 2017)

Everywhere Everywhere Christmas Tonight (october 2017)

Charms (october 2017)

The Bend In The Road For The 13th Fairy (october 2017)

Where We Live On Tuesdays (october 2017)

One Day I Dreamed Of Those Who Anchored In Clouds (october 2017)

To Welcome Small Travelers (october 2017)

Waiting To Resume (october 2017)

Does He Love Even The Dust (october 2017)

Grandmother, In The Evening (october 2017)

When Day Is Done (october 2017)

We'll Get Back To You On That (october 2017)

About The News (october 2017)

Snow Child, Her Legend (october 2017)

My Ghost, in Cherry Velvet (october 2017)

Prescience (october 2017)

Where Is My Sister (october 2017)

Golden (october 2017)

You Risk Everything (october 2017)

That Slays The Heart (october 2017)

Depositions (october 2017)

La Belle Au Bois Dormant (october 2017)

Midland Carol (october 2017)

This Is No Ode To The Laughing Lady (October 2017)

The Soul Lost Upon The Plains Of "We" (october 2017)

The Questions They Asked, Or Could Have (october 2017)

Throwing The Beautiful Wishes Away (october 2017)

Like As Not(october 2017)

A Question Settled, Merrily (october 2017)