Five Poems
Drought of the Land
Wandering Aengus
Haydn's Evening Letters
Winter
Fall
Drought of the Land
1.
concentric knees
rolls of water
in the cupped canopies
palmed palms
the rise of
meandering distance
the long draught of the camel
2.
in the chaparral
a bleached altitude
in the cranial lobelia
an inexact
reaction
salt from pinched digits
laced
spiders of periphery
3.
the sway animals peak
to drink slowly
media
mete
the various variety
the lily this and
that
Wandering Aengus
1.
the hazel burst brilliantine
moon’s woodsfulls
the outside others
son the sun
the linnet-limbed
at deep dappled core
could not stay in
2.
green-grey splays above
the spiny urchin
all the little
all the little
arc deliberates
the damp dim hair
3.
host aloft, party done,
lamped cats put out
bricked stair hovers
wafer of the sleeping air
Haydn's Evening Letters
ribboned floret glories of the sprung tubers
papa at the escritoire
registration of the strings
an air up
and in a bright red book
and in the oratorio
Winter
1.
broadleaf umbers
lesser mumbles of sequestery
nothing yawps
and nothing in particular
particularly dawns
2.
the spilled basket
weather dropped by talons
sun, moon
fluted things
ache the more for
3.
turned legs
an oval pulls broadwater
a hesitant narrows the icy tern
under
under
the down stone duck
Fall
a bundle
in a stationary place
the leapers leap
and in the diacritical
bashed and unabashed
not company
nor unafraid
nor ecstasy of stag
this
against the moon
's poetry and fiction have appeared in The Denver Quarterly, Field, Iowa Review (web), New Orleans Review, 3rd bed, elimae, Archipelago, Painted Bride Quarterly, Portland Review, Oregon Review and many other places since 1974. She is the author of The Plant Waterer and other things in common (Ravenna Press, 2006), Missing Pieces, a coroner's companion (Ocean view Press, 1999), and a chapbook, The Dark Man (Longhouse Press, 1975). A forthcoming book of selected prose and poetry, Omnivory, edited by Deron Bauman, is due from Alhambra Press in 2007.