The unclimbed peak, to me, restless little heathen of commercialized adventuredom, is the interminable challenge. Ferocious, majestic,...

I see, as I fall (and falling from a great height) undeterred, a stream cutting an azure course, white and brave and blinding bright, in...

Reading on dialectics and eternalities and forms, on tremendous propositions and their incumbent pretensions, all comfort shorn, I...

That girl (she was small) delivered as only a child does a character— of a child arms out as crucifix to bear a cumbersome cumbersome...

Irregular idea tossed all too often into conversation There is no such thing So why ask for it Do you dis- agree that certainty is the...

Godless, but not gone. Thoughtless and thankless but not wrong, and down in Mississippi I gave my song away, Down below the line I drew...

lines and lines and circles run furious full and in present absorb life that is active always as there is no stasis that is not in...

We are both so full of it, I and my mother. Full to the point of bursting, As a sparking kiln. Foolish in a poignant way As we weigh and...

We cannot happenstance hope And redemption will not be controlled; A tether on perilous slopes, That will not fray as it grows old And...

Lines — Like I can’t draw them straight, People collapse into pretend anarchy. But we stay behind the yellow line. Here, I have no option...

No flat-footed gait here For misshapen stones have congregated Or been placed, and feathered And weathered away into tables and craters...

Many journalists, and not many friends Around the encumbered tomb Around the brilliant panoply Beneath the dreadful moon Many shattered...

golden copper leaves scuttle round our feet enter, enter this vault of fall walk with me down its glittering hall its buttresses are...

Here the searcher’s tale: A lonesome tragedy Of the journey that ensues If one is sent, Most confident, Into a world that’s free. A...

His glasses focused already small eyes into vivid blue streams of energy they took every decrepit muscle and decaying joint and exploded...

Crisp, stiffer than you’d like, the ocean roars at night. See, lions watch, eyes alit, and you’ve been caught When you shouldn’t be...

In truth, I said “I love you.” Didn’t lie; Hidden, I Caught upon a fear, too. In fact, you were Beyond me. Simple thing: I had no ringing...

Wet-winged water wild thing wild whilst wire-flying, wires and what true omen do you bring today? Flock, wild wonderment, drop-like...

Entire lives are spent Dreaming instead of doing Looking instead of reaching Sitting instead of moving Taking instead of teaching I hope...

Damn the imagined night— A perilous guide indeed, Laden high with smoke And broken mirrors and encrusted dreams. Curse the blissful smog!...