Poetry Notebook

Scouting Love

What was that flash 
of love,
that gash 
above.

At the Breath of Wind

On Dante’s purgatory

What Thursday Was For

Do you know what I have done to you?

A Moment

You wouldn’t believe
the verse I wrote in my mind.
Just now — 
that you wouldn’t believe,
that I didn’t believe.
That I can’t now remember.
Do…

The Meaning

This! — the meaning
of the universe.

A tiny Joy

Watch! How she plays.
Tulip fingers redirecting
this watery bath, the cool
of time passing her by.

A Reply to Thomas Stearns

Is this the way the world ends? “Not with a bang but with a whimper.”

Baptized God

A triplet haiku on the beginning and the end

Cloud

עָשָֽׁן׃ a·shan

of forgetting
of unknowing
of witnesses
of smoke
of the temple
of transfiguration
of ascension
of…