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The Collection
End of Desire: Selected Poems
One hundred poems in seven groups. Every title links to its poem, and the whole collection is there to read or download.
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Scopuli Sirenum
Read post: Scopuli SirenumFor a poet falling is never simple. We fall in and out of time and never know where Tuesday’s gone,
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What Was the Question?
Read post: What Was the Question?Maybe someday, when the sky, busy with clouds and other apparitions, falls and breaks into diamonds,
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Lacrimae Rerum
Read post: Lacrimae RerumI want these words to fall like your tears and be writ in stone
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Of the Earth
Read post: Of the Earth“Kiss me and you will die.” “Too late,” his voice an echo, “I am already dead.”
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Lilaia
Read post: LilaiaThe road wanders through the mountains. I have not yet found the source from which all rivers flow.
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The Moon in the Balance
Read post: The Moon in the BalanceThe Moon In the Balance A sequence of poems, beginning with . . . Branches bare of leaves, the moon hangs in the balance,…
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The Evening Light
Read post: The Evening LightThe old man took the boy's hand in his to say farewell
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Phaiakia
Read post: PhaiakiaDigging in the garden I find but earthly treasure: worms, beetles, and ocean shells