Selected unpublished and published pieces that appeared in The Sun and in a forthcoming book, Come Live Alone With Me.
Come Live Alone With Me Whitman feels it burning in him, always substance, always sex, the sap rising, grapes fermenting. Look for him under our boot-soles, he says; he’ll show us how to dance. Or listen well to Keats: his…
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Balancing On the Wind After toast and eggs and talk of flying South for the spring, you see a heron rise out of the morning white fog hovering over the river. Look, you say to me at the car. That’s…
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On the First Anniversary of the Death of Our Love Two years ago from this mountaintop we could see what an Indian saw standing lean and wide in his hides and feathers, within the circling hawks, on watch for what…
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Another New Advancement of Civilization They gouged the mountain for a power line. Not much of a brown strip compared to the whole green of it. The trouble is, now when I look at that mountain, the gouge is all…
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