Monthly Archives: June 2012

Instead of a Farewell 2

how can I say farewell
when farewells are made
only for people who stay

How to Read a Poem: Beginner’s Manual 0

Poetry demands surrender,
language saying what is true,
doing holy things to the ordinary.

The Peace of Wild Things 0

I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things