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Unmedicated Self-Portrait

I don’t know you, I only think of you to ignore how unhappy I am.

Visitation

Here is where you touch the world and here are the words to feel its heat.

Waiting

People believe; The whole world is part of something.

Wanderer in a Foreign Country

She fell out of her own composition, fell and landed flat on her face.

War Widow

You smile into the phone static, the breath of your beloved.

Waterline

If only to hold on by opening lord give me this one eighth day

Weak Winter Sun

I have been enshrouded for months by the weak winter sun.

Wednesday Afternoon at the Eight-Ball Saloon

Someone seems to have made an excellent age-specific insight.

Wednesdays

I miss sex. I really liked it, and I was good at it, if I do say so myself.

When Enough Is Enough: Age and the Creative Impulse

What about writers who come suddenly into full power late in life?

When Enough Is Enough: Age and the Creative Impulse

What about writers who come suddenly into full power late in life?

When Everything Changed

When My Brother Tells Me I'm Obsessed with Sadness

it’s hard not to be obsessed with your own shadow I don’t tell him

Where Birds Do Not Fly

Louise watched from the shadow. She was looking for somewhere to land.

White Butterfly

Across sage flats, tundra, and bleeding hearts, she escapes.

White Moon Rising

I never actually existed. I didn’t know it at the time, but it’s clear as day.

White Nights

Can there have been something in my letter, that unlucky letter?

Will Write Soon

I live for now in the second house of having asked a favor from a friend.

Wings, 1999

América, make me wings large enough to carry me back and forth.

Winnipesaukee and Other Poems

No one was awake and I was hungover young as clean as a piano.

With or Without the Dog

Of course she had known. Nothing in this life escaped her design. Everywhere, people ogled the ring. Everywhere, Emeline posted pictures.

Writer’s Cottage

Something is wrong with that place. Someone’s still there . . .

Year of the Great Voyage

Our eyes searched for the island, but ahead there was only overcast.

You Never Told Me If There Was Any Moon in Baltimore

Sweet breath hard breath. Every breath a stone-cold bird in thaw.

Zee to A

Dr. Zee knows his son is struggling up out of some chemical fog.