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Qiviut

Of what use, other than to the butterfly, are a butterfly’s wings?

Quiescent and Other Poems

Before giant pandas earn heir name, they cub pinkly and mewling.

Ranch Album

We’ve seen a lot of smaller ranches bought up by outside money.

Raynaud’s Weather

A heart takes precautions, withholds warmth, but it’s mistaken.

Reaction

I wound through the Gothic castle buildings in the university.

Reading Her Poetry

Better to be a bird without altitude. Or to get out of the game early.

Reading His Poetry

Our crowns are made of dead hair and get swept out with the trash.

Reading His Poetry

She does not know within a decade she will unload a slug into her mouth.

Reading His Poetry

I eat what’s in front of me, as all great men do. Some wouldn’t, but I do.

Real Trees Are a Different Matter

I have tried and failed to renew my vows to real trees whom I love.

Red

I halt and watch a monk, under plum boughs, sweeping flitting shreds.

Red Flag Warning

Pale dust clung to their skin like the lime he had thrown on the dead.

Red Tide

I played a game I called ocean, resisted my need for air.

Redwoods Up the North Coast

Those trees—each an epoch with its origin and history, rising into night.

Renaissance Fair

Burly Viking raiders are standing in the coffee line, sharing pickles.

Requiem

Isn’t it nice to think tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes yet?

Rest Cure

As far as I was concerned you need never have been my father.

Return to Halalai

It’s difficult to be blessed by Madam Pele. She gives wonderful trouble.

Reunion and Other Poems

I keep waking up on the edge of the black lake. He’s on the other side.

Rhymes with Thigh Gap and Other Poems

Richard II

The website said November was a good time for appreciating bark.

Ringworm and the Blue Madonna

Nothing was permanent, no friend I made, no math test I took.

River Song

Remember that innocence is risky, memory inconclusive.

Road to Somewhere Else

Kenny Wade makes do with short-term schemes and part-time work.

Road’s End

The roads have come to an end now, they don’t go any farther.

Robert Burns

Any invented quotation, played with confidence, can deceive.

Romeo to His Juliet

Let’s span a time with each other. The mutual will give us pleasure.

Rosemary

A wildness and all the ways I could never be classy enough for pearls.

Rumor of Blood

The boys came down out of the woods and crossed toward the dock.

Russell Chatham the Painter, Recently Hospitalized, Emerges from Seven-Figure Debt and Alcoholism, Ready to Paint

An eye trained only for darkness makes for a lesser path, in art as in life.