Tag Archives: imagery

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

I Am Much Too Alone in This World 1

I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough
to truly consecrate the hour.