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From Mary Is a River

I walked that land with him, one and mingling, breaking into breath.

From Sonnets to the Humans

From Take Me to Stavanger

Into the storm, the iridescent cosmos. To the savage dances of sunset.

From The Victor Poems

It was only a matter of time before the damp of loss grew within us like moss.

From Winter’s Apprentice

A ripple across the darker fathom, no sooner there than torn away.

From “Dragonfly Landing”

Four wings of silk without a trace of dust perched upon a silken line.

From “Last Summer in the Garden”

It is cruel, this business of exile and divorce. I will not deny it.

From “The Book of Clay”

God is there between things, sitting at his own left hand.

from “The Last Bohemian of Avenue A”

Lie down & whisper all your careless dreams into my votive ear.

From “The Monogram”

The waves have heard of you. How you caress, how you kiss.

From “Twenty Poems for Noelle”

Noelle, somewhere symphony number two listens to you breathing.

Gargoyle

Why do you keep so much from your husband, don’t you trust him?

Genesis and Other Poems

Imagine being able to calm the one you love best, who loves you best.

Genuine Fakes and Other Poems

It’s the human genius of reproducing not quite exactly.

Ghazals for the Body

What I want is a woman who knows all the meanings of indulgence.

Giant Learns to Play Basketball

I loved the game not for its shapes alone, but for symmetry’s quiet flash.

Gift

I must be led by what was given to me as streams are led by it

Gifts for a Beautiful Body and Other Poems

Perhaps the only way to see a whole body is to see one coming out of you.

Girl Friend

Such longings: Errant. Verdant. To have a good time. And dream.

Girl in Red

Instead, she stares right at us, her shoulder half-naked in broad daylight.

Glad to Be Who They Are

What a good time we could have if we were happy to be who we are.

Going Hollywood

I’ve never heard of Badgley Mischka (A person? Two people? Man?)

Gone to Feed the Roses

His spirit shone fiercely, shaming the chasm by illuminating it.

Gone, the old verve, gone

My days pass through me as music through a thin, stretched wire.

Good Morning

Her girlish hand the color of rich vanilla floating over the flotsam.

Grand Bay

They rise in waves, while a lone hawk remains unperturbed.

Granddaughters

Our grandmothers were bakers and nurses, spies and traitors.

Grinder

Brod stopped her before she could fling the latte in Marcella’s face.

Gyroscope

The world beyond the windows slowly tips forward into spring.

Hand-Me-Down Halloween

The year we left the reservation a white boy gave me a trash bag.