TO PURITY
I have heard so much about you
if you claim to be you I will know it’s not true
if you say nothing I will listen as I do with my own old mixed feelings of hope and reservation
hearing through them whatever might be you
the way I see the white [...]
Once again, it’s that time of year … time to sit back and reflect on all that I am thankful for.
Work continues to chug along. The bet that I made that our stock would rebound last fall has paid off nicely … I lowered my average cost significantly, and my portfolio is above [...]
COMING TO THE MORNING
You make me remember all of the elements the sea remembering all of its waves
in each of the waves there was always a sky made of water and an eye that looked once
there was the shape of one mountain and a blood kinship with rain
and the air [...]
TO MYSELF
Even when I forget you I go on looking for you I believe I would know you I keep remembering you sometimes long ago but then other times I am sure you were here a moment before and the air is still alive around where you were and I think then I [...]
SUMMITS
Mountains bloom in spring they shine in summer they burn in autumn but they belong to winter every day we travel farther and at evening we come to the same country mountains are waiting but is it for us all day the night was shining through them and many of the birds were [...]
TO THE LIGHT OF SEPTEMBER
When you are already here you appear to be only a name that tells of you whether you are present or not
and for now it seems as though you are still summer still the high familiar endless summer yet with a glint of bronze in the chill mornings [...]
TO THE PRESENT TENSE
By the time you are by the time you come to be by the time you read this by the time you are written by the time you forget by the time you are water through fingers by the time you are taken for granted by the time it hurts [...]
Speech Alone
It happens that one pronounces a few words just for oneself alone on this strange earth then the small white flower the pebble like all those that went before the sprig of stubble find themselves re-united at the foot of the gate which one opens slowly to enter the house of clay [...]
Girl Lithe and Tawny
Girl lithe and tawny, the sun that forms the fruits, that plums the grains, that curls seaweeds filled your body with joy, and your luminous eyes and your mouth that has the smile of the water.
A black ravenous sun bathes you in the thread of your black mane, when [...]
We Have Lost Even
We have lost even this twilight. No one saw us this evening hand in hand while the blue night dropped on the world.
I have seen from my window the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun burned like a coin between my hands.
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