to Kim Stafford I like your poem on trees and us as kin;I found it in a damp brochure besideThe campus center. As I slowly…
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Kelly, you and John are a delight.You make us happy individually;Together it is always better. SoIt’s only fitting to officializeThe thing and get your rings,…
Leave a Comment“Arguably no other notable figure in history was so fantastically wrong about nearly every important thing he had to say.” – Todd Dufresne, LA Times,…
Leave a Comment1.Oh, the wild noise of Madrid is louder, moreFull of life than any individual,No matter how frenetic. Streets all shake from carsAnd trucks, but most…
Leave a CommentCarlos, we are truly brothers. DespiteThe lack of blood between us, despite the milesApart we lived for years and years, despiteThe different vanished fathers, other…
Leave a CommentGod and Job once had a talk.Actually, one talked and oneListened, as the other spunRound and round above his headIn a violent tempest. “Dead,”Job could…
Leave a Commentfor Will Shakespeare The statue of the queen has come to lifeBefore the king who stunned to silence standsIn awe, his withered hands outstretched. This…
Leave a Commentfor Ann Aunt Biddy, yes, we are all “lovely, limited creatures.”We have such strength together that we think we canAccomplish anything alone. We can’t. Yet…
Leave a CommentI.I’m writing love songs to the world,Writing, writing everyday.It’s a process, sure, slow, and steady,Like love itself never is. Sure as the bond between brothersWho…
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