We are like lutes once held by God. Being away from his warm body fully explains this constant yearning.
Hafiz
Retrospective
Sandy Lyne
From Quickly Aging Here, Some Poets of the 1970's
The Guest of Our Lovely Daughter
Notes from an Ohio Tavern
Poem for a Selfpitying Friend/ for Lost Loves
Home-Made Peach Ice Cream
Star-gaze Poem
The Dog
Biographical Note
From The Invention of Dragons
The Tadpole Pool
The Squire in Training
Separation: November
Separation: The Centipede
The Invention of Dragons
The Snowstorm
Sleeping at My Mother’s
The Doubletree
From The Love of Simple Things
Machado, Lorca, Neruda, Jiménez
Mysteries
A Wooden Ghost
Ejuther
Hand
Praise
Madison
Heat
Rain
With Pleasure I Think of Them
A Country Road
From In the Footsteps of Paradise
The Gift
Tumbleweed
Gallant
Snow in the Night
The Deer of the Sea
Poetry Class
Altar Boys
Lexington
Three Flints
Brown September Grass
From The Bow of Silence: Poems for Boys
ABCs
In Denali
Preparations
The Old Chinese Poet
Jacob
Old Blue
Watermelon Suicide
No Two the Same
So Old
All Your Life
The Family Car
A Boy in Baghdad
An American Schoolyard
Apple Tree
Afternoon
Adolescence
From Word-Group Poems
Emperor Children Fireflies Moon
Samurai Village Marigolds Rain
Winter Art Absence Green
From Other Poems
New Mexico
Immigrant
So Many Graves
Traveler
The Mystery
Strangers
Cancer
Impossible
How Do You Become a Poet?
On the Day I Was Born
Harbor Image
Letter to Jim Doss, April 25, 2002
Letter to Jim Doss, April 1, 2003
Excerpt from Letter to Geoffrey Oelsner, November 1, 2005
Adult Poetry Workshops
Teacher & Student Workshops
Introduction to Ten-Second Rainshowers
Introduction to writing poetry from the inside out