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"Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks"
"It was offered to me by name"
"oscillations of planetary pass-pass"
"into the glandular chains of my home"
"Silence is the shape that has passed"
"And dance this boneharp tree"
"foreign to my thought, as Firmament to Fin"
"the ashes, the brick-dust, the bitter iron"
"Shadow, sweet liquid brimming the flesh's shallow basin"
Writing Problems: "Writers are all secret Jews"
"an earth crib for your heart"
"the bright watchers are still there"
"never mine and never not mine"
"not to touch the words carnally"
"Smooth out the substance of your acetylene worry"
"in obedience to Persephone's bees"
"Cosine and tangent of my discontent"
"brutal in its own rung music"
"endless seeds of humid ivory"
"Propt in dark masses on the evening sky"
"Art hurts. Art urges voyages—"
"Passing the dark rooms of dreamers"
"embrace this letting, letting"
"Belong to the Lord of oxygen and watershowers"
"how I loved that terrible flame"
"The privacy of them had a river in it"
"the eyelid of a shadow shuts the hills"
"Her O-mouth grieves at the world"
Writing Problems: Reconciliation
"A flower is moral by its own flowering"
"To let go the means, to wake"
"Easy and often as each breath"
"what it denies and what it fulfills"
"Creature and creature, we stared down centuries"
"The dark thing is hardly visible"
"Unknowing I must soon unpetal"
"Light is time reflecting on time"
"around the world on its crumpled skate"
"passing through one condition on its way to the next"
"To something upper wooing us"
"There are bones and there is consuming"
"who is it watching me behind your eyelids"
"everything here has cold hands"
"What am I to make of these signs?"
"Beaches are strewn again with Jasper, Agate, and Jade"
"a slice of onyx in the sideyard"
"An hour later, you're in paradise"
"Password. Installation. Root of tongues."
"the blood flows slowly, the blood flows"
Writing Problems: Moral Injury
"The shadow was not filled it went on growing"
"the odors the pipes and yes the boo"
"Sea-skill and the way to find"
"thriving in the running folds"
"abandoned unto utter abandon"
"I am the tree that trembles and trembles"
"Of dahlias and one elated lily"
"seemingly endless yellowness"
"icy spaces and endless mystery"
"a handful of tribes on a rather small rock"
"To live is to build a ship and a harbor"
"with its five fingers spread"
"this fogging up transparency is it"
"something immediate, open scissors"
"speaking with people who are silent"
"Ninety-seven percent of my world is wizardry, Three percent is organ, bone"
"Quiet to quiet, I called back"
"shadows falling like black orchids through the air"
"turning to stone, wanting to drop"
"when the red moon and the darkness marry"
"a sweet belt on my manycolored skin"
Writing Problems: Poetry after Auschwitz
"in their simple feeling for one"
"an ocean dimly perceived like an aftertaste"
"in a brown world made of wood"
"Life is beset by small accidents"
"but none will pass the Catacomb"
"No one eats oranges in the full moon's light"
"Water striving to re-establish its mirror"
"Radiant with spokes as if set free"
"And you have become a rich darkness"
"We spoke in whispers when we spoke at all"
"and in meaning it is the meaning"
Writing Problems: Simplicity and Difficulty
"Why do people lie to one another?"
"Bearing the odors of the summer fields"
"part memory part distance remaining"
"the bird-chatter of little rivers"
"Yes, it threw waves across our lives"
Craft: The art of the poetry manuscript
"Toasted susie is my ice-cream"
"or humped, whole, manqué, quasi, each pleases, verging"
"the black frost of outsiderness"
"A single color oversweeps the field"
Craft: How to Get Back Into Writing
"the piano at the top of the Alps"
"I caught the gazer of spaces"
"Master of the still stars and of the flaming door."
"We don't need to see anything out of the ordinary. We already see too much"
"ghostly subtexts of marks & jars"
"It is not a passage, this breathing"
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Writing Problems: Creative Reading
"the lily, the flame, the truelove knot"
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"shrouded by the mantled oxter"
"Palaces of drift and crystal"
"the beautiful half of a golden hurt"
"at the window with not even your rage"
"dust motes moving in the single sun-beam"
"the one was the other and both were no one"
Craft: Drafts and How Poems Get Made
"the washed colors of the afterlife"
"Your voice is the listened-for music"
"whether it is air or it is nothing"
"The smooth earth, swept clean of horses"
Writing Problems: Clearer and Worse
"The history of the frame reframes itself as the history of the failure to reframe"
"shedding blue tassels over the land"
"It is leviathan and we in its belly"
"Why was I born among mirrors?"
"The moment between Have & Shall Not Want"
Writing Problems: Writer's Block
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"as strut or wing, as polytope, as things are constellated"
"Dark trees have bottled its light."
Writing Problems: Politics / Empathy / Change
"A something overtakes the mind—we do not hear it coming"
"fingering through your spaces"
"you seek corners where the blackness has worn off"
"into the quiet of Night's frame"
Writing Problems: Pacing and Production
"a pollen-fall: a rhombus of topaz"
"tonguelet, howling, we will greet each other"
"A white sun in its wet sentences"
"wander in the big dome of living tissue"
"life harvests its grape self"
"eyes open when they should have been closed"
Writing Problems: Keeping the wilderness alive
"in their different kinds of air"
"you draw the black straw out of me"
"Passed through the thousand darknesses of deathbringing speech"
"by the no-one and the not-watching"
"dragons transforming themselves"
"half the time trying to wave them away"
"I will let the odd curve merge"
Writing Problems: Gardening and getting rid of debris
"dull, sweet durances, human silences"
"shuttled thru the tubes of earth"
"the landscape lush, metallic, flayed"
Writing Problems: Compassionate imagination
"You are a planet on this planet"
"The ladder reaches to the moon"
"on the wet sand, and animal sleep"
"a small planet made of emptiness"
"water roaring through the place"
Craft: Five Things that Prevent People from Writing Better Poems
"On a board of raspberry and pure gold"
"the joy of being a telephone"
"The vision was met with in every air"
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"into our very blood, into glance and gesture, and are nameless"
"circle the habit of your meaning"
"Stooping—plucking—sighing—flying"
Writing Problems: Professional Development
"an old gate opens in the sky"
"it is idolatry not indifference"
Craft: Visual Metaphor and Memory
"prowl beyond the undergrowth"
"I sang in my chains like the sea"
"In being one in being that one she was one."
"favor, drag, well-oiled protection"
Writing Problems: Getting Published
"your head like a carving in space"
"Act so there is no use in a center"
"the gap between image and real light"
"To the vision of your twin acts"
"the inner mind that says 'yes' and 'no'"
Craft: How to organize a poetry manuscript
"the time of moon is not right for escape"
"it is difficult to appear so"
"impulses, aims, oscillations"
"metabolic, metaphoric, metamorphic"
Writing Problems: The Position of the Poet
Writing Problems: Neoliberalism
"where trace becomes existence"
Craft: Care more about what a line is than what a poem is.
"the perpetual star multifoliate rose"
"a train tunnel, or God's intestine."
"your eyes are filled with longing"
Craft: Write from impulse and not rules.
"through a forest of empty armor"
"A thousand colors from white to silver."
Craft: Creating poems that appear simultaneously spontaneous, yet inevitable.
"surging down a mile of manifest"
"a cube of hot, smoking conscience."
"with nothing blowing between your house and mine"
"Let me taste the autumn fires."
"Sorrow to sorrow as the sparks fly upward."