POEMS
Please Call Me by My True Names
Please Call Me by My True Names Don’t say that I will depart tomorrow even today I am still arriving. Look deeply: every second I am arrivingto be a bud on a Spring...
An Old Musician
An Old Musician How Should Those who know of God Meet and Part? The way An old musician Greets his beloved Instrument And will take special care, As a great artist...
For a New Beginning
For a New Beginning In out-of-the-way places of the heart,Where your thoughts never think to wander,This beginning has been quietly forming,Waiting until you were ready...
For My Young Friends Who Are Afraid
For My Young Friends Who Are Afraid There is a country to cross you willfind in the corner of your eye, inthe quick slip of your foot--air fardown, a snap that might...
Self Portrait
Self Portrait It doesn't interest me if there is one GodOr many gods.I want to know if you belong -- or feel abandoned;If you know despairOr can see it in others.I want...
Lost
Lost Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission...