curtain
pulled back
life
________________________
spigot
drip
answer
me
___________________________
sleeping tree
waking tree
touching
it
_____________________________________________
end
date
no one
can read
______________________________________
plant
against window
the aureole
a next
best thing
____________________________________________
abandoned mall
the gulls
circle over
not quite
believing
_____________________________
read
some words
some space
out
_____________________________________________
I need
some lamb
someone
thinks
sadly
_________________________________________________
motherless
tree
pity
yourself
__________________________________________________
in 3 mo.
the lilacs
will scour
your conscience
oh threat
of scent
________________________________________
cat food
in sunlight
open
invitation
turkey vultures
R.S.V.P.
by staring
___________________________________
in the hospital
flashlight tag
night
for adults
_______________________________________
shaft
I love you
I went
into a mine
with you
______________________
in my bathroom
the reflection
of an unreal house
in real
tile
_______________________________
horse horse
run
be horse
ash
liquor
you are fine
by yourself
____________________________________
the president
on the t.v.
each morning
in a playpen
the adults
hemming him in
_________________________________________
good night
I tell the cat
shutting the door
on star maps
__________________________________
I feel love
like old Hollywood
star maps
for you
useless brochure
kept in a drawer
___________________________________________
dawn
kiss
the night
goodnight
_______________________________
he towed the dark
he was in love
________________________________________
a tree's branch
drooping
flowering
how something
real dangles
feels
a flirtation
often
mistakenly
a world's fruit
even its flowers
have a
simple
means
of
gravity
_________________________________________
banks of
hospital windows
be molten
be the face
of river
dusk Susquehanna
late
clouds
late
clouds
banks of
_________________________________
Tithonus
at morning
what a loser
______________________________
lover
loser
dawn
_____________________________
fermez
la bouche
I hear
in my dead father's
kindest
voice
________________________________
piece of blue
sea glass
on a window sill
what's your problem?
__________________________________________
"here in my branches"
I show
my lover
_________________________
unforetold
riches
under
a rock
sarcasm
_________________________________
I remember
we came upon
a magic carpet
of wild
mayapples
in the woods
behind
its abandoned
baseball field
where it
postured
___________________________________
glass Avon
parrot
blue body
yellow head
taking the light
of a poor window
Egyptian
flea market
bah
____________________________
a cat's
cry
a violin
no
difference
no
human
difference
___________________________________
oh photo-
graph
graph
I too
love
edgelessness
of phenomena
______________________
night river
head
asleep
headless
asleep
this in
water
________________________________
these words
embody
you
________________________________________
a mild river
abusing
the night
____________________________________
high
and low
meet
where our dent
desire
lives
__________________________________
I put my hands
in wild water
you
had better
not
be lying
________________________________________
words
let out
words
let in
poetry
_________________________________
the meaningless
is what
tingles
in love
_____________________________
he said
bumptiously
sexily
I live
way out
way off
the beaten path
I must
beat it
myself
_________________________
bright tangle
seaweed
green
lonesome
grey beach
just before
dawn
burping
bubbles
________________________________
to go
to the open
ocean
we drive
through
the Amish
___________________________________
guilt in
guilt out
let's eat
lunch
in a cemetery
_________________________________
how long
can
the cat
cry
behind
the door
before I come
to my
senses
_________________________
we come to senses
they come
to us
no privacy
in sensuality
________________________
stay married
to me
though
we never
met
nor will
if there is
even a
half-okay
god
half-okay
god
_____________________________________
the president
in his playpen
starts up
again
such
lungs
__________________________________
we are
all spiritual
in elevators
___________________________
where I live
yard Marys
and pitbulls
equally
popular
useful
hard
___________________________________
once
as a child
I adopted
an unwanted cat
we already
had one
so it felt
unwanted
by spite
by spite
so it
ran away
we looked
and called out
we pasted
we pasted
and phoned
but she
never came
back
she
now
I think
about her
more
and more
thirty-five
years
later
she
surely
got home
_______________________________
a hunk
of broken concrete
where we sat
hanging
over the river
I meant
to say
"cantilevered"
no
it was
hanging
___________________________________________
I believe
in love
and I
believe
in knees
_____________________________
kids
a ring
of glass
broken
neck
of a bottle
sparkling
placed on limb
branch
of a tree
betrothal
_______________________________
I saw
a u.f.o.
with you
when it
was so
dark
could see
nothing else
you took
my hand
because
it was early
______________________________
we will move
to the ocean
and both
be witches
massachusetts
switches
_______________________
a tree
managing
its aura
is not
really
a poem
__________________________________
lit towards the dark
a fish swims
___________________________
lover
the blinds
go
sensually
_______________________
a restaurant
the world
closed
________________________________
I pass
an apartment building
where you
were crazy
young
I'm walking
slow down
old
crazy people
saunter out
____________________________________
poetry
mostly
off the clock
_________________________
the political correctness
of water
__________________________
I waited
so long
to tell you
this
over there
over there
that's the factory
there
they make doorknobs
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