• Aging
  • Sep 21, 2016 Advice from the Old to the Young
  • Sep 13, 2016 Aging 1
  • Sep 12, 2016 Aging 2
  • Aug 31, 2016 Apart
  • Aug 19, 2016 At Home
  • Aug 14, 2016 Autoimmune Disease or Civil War
  • Aug 1, 2016 Beach House
  • Jul 21, 2016 Belle
  • Jul 16, 2016 Bird Watchers (For Judith)
  • Jun 29, 2016 Body vs. Soul
  • Jun 21, 2016 Breathing (Remembering Buddy)
  • Jun 13, 2016 Cat Boycott (Remembering Lucy, the Neighborhood Cat)
  • Apr 9, 2016 Daylily
  • Apr 7, 2016 Daylily Shroud
  • Mar 4, 2016 Doubt
  • Feb 27, 2016 Dryer Fuzz
  • Feb 19, 2016 Elderly Women
  • Feb 10, 2016 Energy
  • Feb 9, 2016 Entrepreneur (For a High School Classmate)
  • Feb 3, 2016 Evening of a Spring Snowfall
  • Jan 30, 2016 Faces
  • Dec 25, 2015 Garden Treasure
  • Dec 20, 2015 Geraniums in Spring
  • Nov 13, 2015 Growl
  • Nov 8, 2015 Half Awake Poems
  • Nov 7, 2015 Hallelujah
  • Nov 7, 2015 Respite
  • Nov 6, 2015 Hallelujah Chorus
  • Nov 2, 2015 Hang On
  • Oct 14, 2015 Hole
  • Oct 6, 2015 How are You?
  • Oct 1, 2015 Hunting
  • Oct 1, 2015 Seeing
  • Sep 28, 2015 I Have Always Wanted to be a Poet
  • Sep 15, 2015 Intention
  • Sep 11, 2015 In this World
  • Sep 4, 2015 Interlude
  • Jul 31, 2015 Last Stop
  • Jul 25, 2015 Leaves
  • Jul 21, 2015 Life
  • Jul 18, 2015 Lightness of Being
  • Jul 15, 2015 Lilies
  • Jul 2, 2015 Locust Tree in Fort Ward Park
  • Jul 1, 2015 Lone Ranger
  • Jun 30, 2015 Loner
  • Jun 14, 2015 Luck
  • Jun 13, 2015 Lullaby
  • Jun 8, 2015 Making Sense of Getting Old
  • May 19, 2015 Meditations on Winter Geraniums
  • May 15, 2015 Mending Fence
  • May 8, 2015 Mine
  • May 7, 2015 Mining
  • May 6, 2015 Miscellany
  • Apr 28, 2015 Morning
  • Apr 15, 2015 Movement
  • Apr 10, 2015 My Castle
  • Apr 1, 2015 Napping with My Dog
  • Mar 21, 2015 Night Work
  • Mar 19, 2015 Nighttime Swimming
  • Mar 17, 2015 No Name
  • Mar 14, 2015 Not Me
  • Mar 9, 2015 Nursery
  • Mar 8, 2015 Nursing Home
  • Mar 1, 2015 Old Fences
  • Feb 28, 2015 Old Folks Together
  • Feb 27, 2015 Old Voices
  • Feb 26, 2015 Old Women
  • Feb 18, 2015 One Old Man to Another
  • Feb 12, 2015 Others
  • Jan 8, 2015 Pity the Forgetful
  • Dec 19, 2014 Potpourri
  • Nov 20, 2014 Rainbow
  • Nov 9, 2014 Reliving
  • Oct 26, 2014 Rocket Man
  • Sep 22, 2014 Shell Collector
  • Sep 13, 2014 Simple Pleasure
  • Sep 6, 2014 Slave Song
  • Sep 5, 2014 Sleeping Dog
  • Aug 28, 2014 Snow Children
  • Aug 26, 2014 Snowfall in Early December
  • Aug 23, 2014 So Long
  • Aug 17, 2014 Sometimes
  • Aug 15, 2014 Song of the Spirit
  • Aug 12, 2014 Songs of the Body
  • Jul 27, 2014 Spring Snow
  • Jul 22, 2014 Still Life
  • Jul 13, 2014 Summation
  • Jul 3, 2014 Tatters
  • Jun 19, 2014 The Contest
  • Jun 12, 2014 The Funeral
  • Jun 6, 2014 The Human Condition
  • May 23, 2014 The Retireds
  • May 11, 2014 The Universe and Me
  • May 5, 2014 The Young
  • May 4, 2014 There is in Age a Comfort
  • Apr 30, 2014 This House
  • Apr 25, 2014 Through the Window
  • Mar 26, 2014 Two Complaints
  • Mar 17, 2014 Vacuum
  • Mar 13, 2014 Veteran
• Birds
  • Oct 6, 2016 A Robin,
  • Oct 2, 2016 A Thought
  • Sep 11, 2016 American Bittern
  • Aug 11, 2016 Baby Bird
  • Aug 3, 2016 Barred Owl
  • Jul 15, 2016 Birds
  • Jul 7, 2016 Blackbird 1
  • Jul 6, 2016 Blackbird 2
  • Jul 5, 2016 Blackbird Dream
  • Jun 14, 2016 Cardinal Trilogy
  • Jun 12, 2016 Catbird
  • Jun 11, 2016 Catbird Elegy
  • Jun 10, 2016 Catbird Song
  • Jun 6, 2016 Cavalry Expected
  • May 28, 2016 Christmas Morning at Mattapoisett
  • Mar 30, 2016 December
  • Feb 25, 2016 Eagle
  • Feb 11, 2016 Ending the Day
  • Jan 20, 2016 Favorite Birds
  • Jan 14, 2016 Fishcrows
  • Dec 16, 2015 Gift
  • Dec 5, 2015 Golden Falcon
  • Dec 4, 2015 Goldfinch
  • Nov 27, 2015 Goose Music
  • Nov 24, 2015 Grackles
  • Nov 10, 2015 Gyrfalcon In Winter
  • Oct 24, 2015 Hawk
  • Oct 23, 2015 Hawk In Sun
  • Oct 19, 2015 Heron and Heraclitus
  • Oct 15, 2015 Hold Tight
  • Oct 8, 2015 Horned Owl
  • Oct 6, 2015 How are You?
  • Oct 4, 2015 Hummingbird
  • Sep 10, 2015 Indigo Bunting
  • Aug 22, 2015 Jenny Wren
  • Aug 14, 2015 June Prophecy
  • Jul 30, 2015 Last Supper
  • Jul 17, 2015 Like Me
  • Jul 7, 2015 Little Man
  • Jun 28, 2015 Looking Out My Window
  • Jun 27, 2015 Loose Talk about Blackbirds
  • Jun 22, 2015 Love in the Swamp
  • Jun 6, 2015 Mallards
  • May 4, 2015 Misuse of Mind
  • May 3, 2015 Mockingbird
  • Apr 29, 2015 More on Blackbirds
  • Apr 25, 2015 Morning Light
  • Mar 30, 2015 Nebraska Cornfield
  • Feb 7, 2015 Ovenbird 1
  • Feb 6, 2015 Ovenbird 2
  • Feb 5, 2015 Ovenbird 3
  • Jan 23, 2015 Pentecost
  • Nov 28, 2014 Purple and Full of Seeds
  • Nov 14, 2014 Redbreast Robin
  • Nov 13, 2014 Redwing
  • Oct 28, 2014 Robin Calendar
  • Oct 27, 2014 Robins and Waxwings and Holly
  • Oct 23, 2014 Rooster
  • Oct 19, 2014 Ruffed Grouse
  • Oct 6, 2014 Seagull (Lake Michigan)
  • Sep 11, 2014 Sandhill Cranes
  • Sep 3, 2014 Small Birds in Spring
  • Aug 25, 2014 Snowy Egret
  • Jun 15, 2014 The Cup
  • Jun 9, 2014 The Gift of Vultures
  • Jun 5, 2014 The Hummer
  • Mar 8, 2014 Vulture Tree
  • Feb 15, 2014 Waxwings and Holly
  • Jan 19, 2014 Wild Cranes
  • Jan 15, 2014 Wingbeat
• Death
  • Sep 25, 2016 Accident (For Patrick)
  • Aug 6, 2016 Bare Bones
  • Jul 17, 2016 Bill's Brother Died,
  • Jul 9, 2016 Black Vultures
  • Jul 1, 2016 Blues for Belle
  • Jun 28, 2016 Bones
  • Jun 21, 2016 Breathing (Remembering Buddy)
  • Jun 11, 2016 Catbird Elegy
  • May 22, 2016 Circles within Circles
  • May 16, 2016 Coming Home
  • Apr 30, 2016 Conversation
  • Apr 5, 2016 Dead Reckoning
  • Apr 4, 2016 Deadheading
  • Apr 1, 2016 Dear God,
  • Mar 31, 2016 Death of Susan,
  • Mar 22, 2016 Denial
  • Mar 1, 2016 Drought
  • Feb 14, 2016 Empty Deer
  • Feb 13, 2016 Empty Man
  • Jan 7, 2016 For Maureen (On Hearing of Her Mother's Death)
  • Jan 2, 2016 Form
  • Dec 21, 2015 George's Ashes
  • Oct 23, 2015 Hawk In Sun (Following My Son's Funeral)
  • Oct 18, 2015 Hibernation in the Northern Climes
  • Oct 5, 2015 How I Wish to End
  • Sep 17, 2015 In and Out
  • Sep 16, 2015 In Death the Body Takes Over
  • Sep 15, 2015 Intention
  • Sep 11, 2015 In this World
  • Aug 31, 2015 It's Christmas
  • Aug 7, 2015 Knowledge
  • Aug 1, 2015 Last Steps
  • Jul 29, 2015 Last Words
  • Jul 22, 2015 1 Sitting with the Dead
  • Jul 22, 2015 2 Letting Go
  • Jul 22, 2015 3 Lost Child
  • Jul 22, 2015 4 Dwindling
  • Jul 22, 2015 5 Afterwards
  • Jul 1, 2015 Lone Ranger
  • Jun 7, 2015 Maladies
  • May 16, 2015 Memorial Day: Gay Son
  • Apr 21, 2015 Mortality
  • Mar 22, 2015 Night Wish
  • Mar 17, 2015 No Name
  • Mar 14, 2015 Not Me
  • Mar 8, 2015 Nursing Home
  • Mar 4, 2015 Of Tapes and Rails
  • Feb 4, 2015 Pagan Prayer
  • Dec 25, 2014 Points of View
  • Dec 24, 2014 Pony Express
  • Dec 12, 2014 Preparation
  • Nov 18, 2014 Reaching
  • Nov 2, 2014 Ride Home (For Tom Flood)
  • Oct 7, 2014 Saying Goodbye
  • Sep 6, 2014 Slave Song
  • Aug 3, 2014 Spirit Comes and Goes
  • Jul 21, 2014 Stones (A Meditation)
  • Jun 19, 2014 The Contest
  • Jun 18, 2014 The Coroners
  • Apr 15, 2014 To Love a Dog
  • Apr 6, 2014 Trapped (On My Father's Death)
  • Mar 27, 2014 Two Children
  • Mar 20, 2014 Unwilling
  • Mar 14, 2014 Velvet Sack
  • Feb 16, 2014 Waterfall (On the Death of My Daughter’s Teacher)
  • Feb 4, 2014 What I Saw
  • Jan 26, 2014 Where?
  • Jan 21, 2014 Why We Die
• Encounters
  • Oct 8, 2016 A Poem For Dorothy (Who Is Not Right)
  • Oct 4, 2016 A Statement as from Opponents (For Tom Flood)
  • Sep 6, 2016 Angel (For Lowell Hildebrand)
  • Jun 30, 2016 Body
  • Jun 13, 2016 Cat Boycott (Remembering Lucy, the Neighborhood Cat)
  • Apr 30, 2016 Conversation
  • Apr 30, 2016 Closing Time
  • Apr 29, 2016 Conversation with an English Sardine
  • Apr 19, 2016 Criminal (A Scandinavian Painting)
  • Mar 8, 2016 Dog Walk (For Jazz)
  • Feb 25, 2016 Each Day is a Special Occasion
  • Feb 13, 2016 Empty Man
  • Jan 13, 2016 Five O'Clock in the Morning
  • Dec 27, 2015 Friends
  • Nov 3, 2015 Hands
  • Oct 20, 2015 Heroes
  • Oct 10, 2015 Honesty
  • Jul 9, 2015 Listen to Yourself
  • May 31, 2015 March Encounter
  • Apr 17, 2015 Mountain et Alia
  • Apr 7, 2015 My Name is Bob
  • Mar 27, 2015 New Adam
  • Jan 26, 2015 Pat Sprowl's Barbershop
  • Jan 21, 2015 Perfection
  • Jan 1, 2015 Poem for Alan (Upon His Divorce)
  • Dec 29, 2014 Poem For Tom Flood
  • Dec 4, 2014 Prostitute
  • Sep 21, 2014 Shell Collector's Dreams
  • Sep 7, 2014 Sky Diving (For Mary Santulli)
  • Jul 23, 2014 Statement of an Eighty Year Old Woman After Rape
  • Jul 20, 2014 Strange Attraction
  • Jul 7, 2014 T-Shirts
  • Jun 30, 2014 Tenderized
  • Jun 23, 2014 The Boxers
  • Jun 22, 2014 The Building
  • Jun 1, 2014 The Look
  • Mar 9, 2014 Volcano
  • Mar 5, 2014 Waiter
  • Feb 11, 2014 Welcome
  • Feb 3, 2014 What Is Truth?
  • Feb 2, 2014 What is Wrong with Jim?
  • Jan 6, 2014 Woman in a Wheelchair
• Experience
  • Sep 29, 2016 Absence
  • Sep 27, 2016 Abyss
  • Sep 16, 2016 After Sleep
  • Aug 5, 2016 Barefoot
  • Aug 4, 2016 Barns
  • Jul 30, 2016 Beauty
  • Jul 25, 2016 Becoming Beauty
  • Jul 2, 2016 Blind Man
  • Jun 3, 2016 Change
  • May 13, 2016 Concavities, Pock Marks, Depression
  • May 12, 2016 Conclusion
  • May 6, 2016 Conscience
  • May 1, 2016 Conundrum
  • Apr 27, 2016 Cool Morning: A Song
  • Apr 11, 2016 Dark Chocolate
  • Mar 9, 2016 Dog Logic
  • Mar 5, 2016 Doors
  • Mar 2, 2016 Dreams
  • Feb 15, 2016 Emotion
  • Jan 17, 2016 Feeling
  • Dec 17, 2015 Getting Ready
  • Oct 21, 2015 Hello/Goodbye
  • Oct 3, 2015 Hung Up
  • Sep 30, 2015 Hurt
  • Sep 21, 2015 Image
  • Sep 19, 2015 Imaging
  • Sep 14, 2015 In Plato's Cave
  • Aug 16, 2015 Joy
  • Jul 26, 2015 Learning Dog
  • Jul 19, 2015 Lighted Windows
  • May 14, 2015 Mental Weather
  • Apr 26, 2015 Morning Joy
  • Apr 4, 2015 Mountain Climbing
  • Mar 10, 2015 Null Punkt
  • Mar 5, 2015 Observing Ice
  • Feb 16, 2015 Opened Room
  • Jan 30, 2015 Panic
  • Jan 27, 2015 Passing Storm
  • Jan 21, 2015 Perfection
  • Nov 29, 2014 Pure Sex
  • Nov 8, 2014 Repetition
  • Oct 21, 2014 Roundness (Or The Fitting)
  • Oct 13, 2014 Saltwater Fishing (For Bill)
  • Sep 28, 2014 Self-Control
  • Sep 16, 2014 Shower
  • Aug 31, 2014 Smile
  • Aug 22, 2014 So Much For This Beautiful World
  • Aug 19, 2014 Solitude
  • Jul 18, 2014 Stream
  • Jun 24, 2014 The Antinomies
  • Jun 22, 2014 The City
  • Jun 10, 2014 The Gift
  • May 30, 2014 The Man who Loved the Sun
  • May 27, 2014 The Moment
  • May 15, 2014 The Swing
  • May 12, 2014 The Uncertainty Principle
  • May 3, 2014 Think of What You Do
  • Apr 29, 2014 This Life I Live
  • Apr 26, 2014 Three
  • Apr 23, 2014 Tight Rope Walker
  • Apr 18, 2014 To a Salesman
  • Apr 14, 2014 Tomorrows
  • Apr 12, 2014 Tools
  • Apr 5, 2014 Trash Burning
  • Apr 4, 2014 Trust I
  • Apr 3, 2014 Trust II
  • Apr 2, 2014 Trust III
  • Apr 1, 2014 Truth Always Deserves Respect
  • Mar 28, 2014 Tumbleweeds
  • Mar 28, 2014 Thirty Pieces of Silver
  • Mar 2, 2014 Walking on Hands
  • Feb 12, 2014 Weight of Water
  • Feb 12, 2014 Waste Not (or Digging Out)
  • Feb 4, 2014 What Am I?
  • Jan 19, 2014 Wild Cranes
  • Jan 1, 2014 Zig-Zag
• Faith
  • Sep 30, 2016 Abraham
  • Sep 23, 2016 Adam
  • Sep 18, 2016 After God
  • Sep 5, 2016 Angels
  • Sep 3, 2016 Another Christmas Story
  • Aug 29, 2016 Appointment
  • Aug 22, 2016 Ash Wednesday
  • Aug 20, 2016 At Gallery 717: Four Paintings
  • Jul 20, 2016 Ben Adam
  • Jul 12, 2016 Black Hole
  • Jun 8, 2016 Caught
  • Jun 7, 2016 Caught up in the House of Beauty
  • Jun 2, 2016 Cherries
  • May 30, 2016 Christmas Ghosts
  • May 29, 2016 Christmas Morning
  • May 25, 2016 Christmas Story
  • May 24, 2016 Christmas Season
  • May 21, 2016 Claims
  • May 17, 2016 Comforter
  • May 9, 2016 Confession
  • May 6, 2016 Consciousness
  • May 4, 2016 Constancy
  • Apr 25, 2016 Cosmos
  • Apr 23, 2016 Costly Love
  • Apr 18, 2016 Crucifixion
  • Apr 14, 2016 Daily Communion
  • Apr 12, 2016 Dark Angel
  • Apr 9, 2016 Daylily
  • Apr 3, 2016 Dear Christ,
  • Mar 21, 2016 Desert
  • Mar 18, 2016 Desert Dependence
  • Mar 17, 2016 Desert Fruit
  • Mar 13, 2016 Disinherited
  • Mar 11, 2016 Ditch
  • Mar 4, 2016 Doubt
  • Feb 22, 2016 Easter 2006
  • Feb 21, 2016 Easter 2012
  • Feb 6, 2016 Evangelists
  • Feb 5, 2016 Eve
  • Feb 1, 2016 Evolution
  • Jan 28, 2016 Faith
  • Jan 25, 2016 Farmer
  • Jan 18, 2016 Fear of the Lord
  • Jan 16, 2016 Fetality
  • Jan 10, 2016 Flower Garden
  • Dec 24, 2015 Gardener's Prayer
  • Dec 22, 2015 Gate of Life
  • Dec 19, 2015 Gesthemane
  • Dec 18, 2015 Getting It Right
  • Dec 13, 2015 God
  • Dec 12, 2015 God May Be Dead,
  • Dec 11, 2015 God's Hunger
  • Dec 9, 2015 God's Silence
  • Dec 7, 2015 God's Breath
  • Dec 2, 2015 Good Friday
  • Nov 29, 2015 Good Taste
  • Nov 26, 2015 Gospel Study Group
  • Nov 25, 2015 Grace
  • Oct 13, 2015 Holy Man
  • Oct 9, 2015 Honey Locust
  • Oct 2, 2015 Hunger
  • Sep 29, 2015 Hymn
  • Sep 15, 2015 In Need and In Between
  • Sep 10, 2015 Indigo Bunting
  • Sep 2, 2015 Isaac
  • Sep 1, 2015 Ishmael
  • Aug 28, 2015 Jacob
  • Aug 21, 2015 Jesus
  • Aug 19, 2015 Jonah of my Childhood
  • Aug 18, 2015 Joseph
  • Aug 15, 2015 Judas
  • Aug 12, 2015 Keeping the Inheritance
  • Aug 5, 2015 Land of Soul
  • Jul 8, 2015 Listening
  • Jun 29, 2015 Looking for God
  • Jun 15, 2015 Low Tide
  • May 29, 2015 Martyr
  • May 28, 2015 Mary
  • May 27, 2015 Mary Magdalene
  • May 21, 2015 Meaning of Trees
  • May 12, 2015 Midnight of the Soul
  • Apr 20, 2015 Mother Eve 1
  • Apr 7, 2015 My Poetry I
  • Apr 6, 2015 My Poetry II
  • Apr 4, 2015 Mystery
  • Mar 27, 2015 New Adam
  • Mar 18, 2015 No Answer
  • Mar 11, 2015 Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep
  • Feb 23, 2015 On Religion
  • Feb 20, 2015 On the Metro to Washington DC
  • Feb 17, 2015 One-sided Conversation
  • Feb 14, 2015 Orphan
  • Jan 19, 2015 Perspective I
  • Jan 18, 2015 Peter Watching With Jesus 2016
  • Jan 17, 2015 Peter's Confession
  • Jan 5, 2015 Playing on the Edge
  • Dec 20, 2014 Posture
  • Dec 15, 2014 Prayer
  • Dec 7, 2014 Prodigal Son
  • Nov 26, 2014 Questions
• Family
  • Oct 6, 2016 A Prayer for Sister Ellie (At Graduation)
  • Oct 1, 2016 Abandoned Child
  • Sep 28, 2016 Abused Child
  • Sep 19, 2016 Africa Haunting: Ontological Clarification Requested
  • Sep 15, 2016 Afterwork (for Clarence Edward Carlson, 1897 – 1989)
  • Sep 10, 2016 A Mother
  • Sep 4, 2016 Anger
  • Aug 18, 2016 At Sea
  • Aug 14, 2016 Aunt Gladys was in Love with her Beauty
  • Aug 6, 2016 Band Aid
  • Jul 23, 2016 Bedtime Drawing
  • Jul 18, 2016 Benediction (For My Mother)
  • Jun 24, 2016 Bounty
  • Jun 19, 2016 Burbank, California 1944
  • Jun 3, 2016 Blind Children In A Hospital Garden
  • May 27, 2016 Christmas Ride (for Erma Lucille Carlson, 1906-1990)
  • May 20, 2016 Contemplation
  • May 7, 2016 Connection
  • May 4, 2016 Days of Passing (For Elizabeth)
  • Apr 27, 2016 Cookie Jar
  • Apr 26, 2016 Cornfield
  • Apr 14, 2016 Curse
  • Apr 12, 2016 Damage
  • Mar 19, 2016 Desert Ash (For Karin)
  • Mar 16, 2016 Bishop's Daughter (For Ellie)
  • Mar 11, 2016 Distance
  • Mar 9, 2016 DNA
  • Mar 5, 2016 Doing Dishes
  • Feb 28, 2016 Drug Store (1947)
  • Feb 28, 2016 Drums
  • Feb 22, 2016 Easter 1991 (For Ellie)
  • Feb 16, 2016 Elizabeth at Canyon de Chelly
  • Jan 22, 2016 Farmer's Son (Huntington, 1955)
  • Jan 21, 2016 Farmer's Two Sons (For August Wilhelm Carlson, 1864 – 1935)
  • Jan 20, 2016 For Auntie Em
  • Jan 20, 2016 Farming
  • Jan 5, 2016 For My Sister (Emily Carlson Ware)
  • Jan 4, 2016 Forest Runner
  • Jan 3, 2016 Forgiveness
  • Nov 29, 2015 Good Relations
  • Nov 21, 2015 Grand Daughter
  • Nov 20, 2015 Grave Rubbing (For Annie Christina Burton)
  • Nov 17, 2015 Green
  • Nov 17, 2015 Greed
  • Oct 26, 2015 Hats
  • Oct 25, 2015 Haunting
  • Oct 7, 2015 Hospital (For Emily)
  • Sep 12, 2015 In the Park of an Evening
  • Sep 9, 2015 Inheritance
  • Sep 3, 2015 Ironing
  • Aug 29, 2015 J.W.'s Younger Daughter
  • Aug 27, 2015 Jacob on Isaac
  • Aug 17, 2015 Journey
  • Jul 25, 2015 Liz
  • Jul 12, 2015 Lingonberries
  • May 5, 2015 Missionary
  • Apr 24, 2015 Mornings
  • Apr 19, 2015 Mountain Child
  • Apr 16, 2015 Mourning Cloak
  • Apr 14, 2015 Movie
  • Apr 11, 2015 My Africa
  • Apr 5, 2015 My Younger Sister
  • Mar 3, 2015 Of Things More Beautiful
  • Feb 10, 2015 Our Fathers' Sons
  • Feb 8, 2015 Outside Dakar - Dream
  • Feb 3, 2015 Pain Poem
  • Jan 28, 2015 Parents
  • Jan 15, 2015 Photograph
  • Jan 13, 2015 Pigs (Corunna, 1954, for Emily)
  • Jan 10, 2015 Pipe Smoke or My Grandmother's Toenails (Philomath 1946)
  • Jan 9, 2015 Pity
  • Jan 2, 2015 Poem at Christmas (for Jessica)
  • Dec 31, 2014 Poem for Colin
  • Dec 16, 2014 Prairie Fire
  • Dec 13, 2014 Pregnancy
  • Dec 11, 2014 Presence
  • Dec 8, 2014 Prodigal
  • Dec 1, 2014 Psalm 23 (for Anna Christina Bauer Burton, 1872 - 1956)
  • Nov 3, 2014 Revelation
  • Nov 1, 2014 Righteous Mother
  • Oct 24, 2014 Rodeo
  • Oct 14, 2014 Salt-and-Peppers
  • Oct 12, 2014 Salvation
  • Sep 19, 2014 Shoogie
  • Sep 10, 2014 Sister
  • Sep 8, 2014 Skin
  • Sep 1, 2014 Small Poem at Christmas
  • Aug 21, 2014 So What
  • Aug 20, 2014 Solace
  • Aug 13, 2014 Songs in Time
  • Aug 4, 2014 Speculation
  • Aug 3, 2014 Spit
  • Jul 10, 2014 Sun and Shade
  • Jul 4, 2014 Task
  • Jun 21, 2014 The Climber (Or Humpty Dumpty)
  • Jun 13, 2014 The Fight
  • Jun 1, 2014 The Man I Want to Know
  • May 30, 2014 The Man who found Love in the Sun
  • May 22, 2014 The Rev. J.W.Burton's Wife
  • May 18, 2014 The Sleeper
• Nature
  • Sep 17, 2016 After Rain
  • Aug 30, 2016 Ape Man
  • Aug 26, 2016 Are You Ready for Snow?
  • Aug 13, 2016 Automatic
  • Aug 2, 2016 Beach
  • Jul 28, 2016 Beaver Creek (For Carol)
  • Jul 10, 2016 Black Snake
  • Jul 4, 2016 Blessing
  • Jun 25, 2016 Boundary
  • Jun 19, 2016 Butterfly
  • Jun 15, 2016 Canyon Country
  • May 24, 2016 Cicada
  • May 23, 2016 Cicada Songs
  • May 18, 2016 Come Spirit
  • Apr 10, 2016 Daylilies
  • Apr 9, 2016 Day Lily
  • Apr 7, 2016 Daylily Shroud
  • Apr 4, 2016 Deadheading
  • Mar 30, 2016 December
  • Mar 28, 2016 December Morning
  • Mar 27, 2016 Declaration of the Trees
  • Mar 19, 2016 Desert Cliff
  • Mar 16, 2016 Desert Plants
  • Mar 3, 2016 Dragonfly
  • Feb 20, 2016 Easy to Turn Up the Heat
  • Feb 14, 2016 Empty Deer
  • Feb 12, 2016 Emulating Hymenoptera (For Donald W. Baker)
  • Feb 7, 2016 Erosion
  • Feb 4, 2016 Evening Feeding
  • Jan 12, 2016 Flea Logic
  • Jan 11, 2016 Flower
  • Jan 9, 2016 Foot Knowledge
  • Dec 31, 2015 Found
  • Dec 29, 2015 Fox Fire
  • Dec 3, 2015 Good Counsel
  • Nov 16, 2015 Green World (for David)
  • Nov 11, 2015 Grackles
  • Nov 2, 2015 Hang On
  • Oct 28, 2015 Hate
  • Oct 16, 2015 Hiking After Rain
  • Sep 27, 2015 I Remember Trees
  • Sep 25, 2015 Ice Storm
  • Sep 20, 2015 Images of Trees
  • Sep 18, 2015 Impatience
  • Sep 13, 2015 In Praise of Frogs
  • Aug 30, 2015 Ivy
  • Aug 26, 2015 January Wind
  • Aug 25, 2015 January Worry (from Jim Rude, arranged by B. Carlson)
  • Aug 24, 2015 Japanese Beetles
  • Aug 2, 2015 Last Snow
  • Jul 25, 2015 Leaves
  • Jul 24, 2015 Leavings
  • Jul 16, 2015 Lilac Blossoms
  • Jul 15, 2015 Lilies
  • Jul 15, 2015 Lilies of my Field
  • Jul 2, 2015 Locust Tree in Fort Ward Park
  • Jun 11, 2015 Magnolia Leaves
  • Jun 10, 2015 Maine Air Force
  • May 21, 2015 Meaning of Trees
  • May 20, 2015 Mechanical Dragonfly Imagined
  • May 19, 2015 Meditations on Winter Geraniums
  • May 13, 2015 Metronome
  • May 11, 2015 Midwest Landscape
  • May 10, 2015 Mill River at Sunset: New Haven
  • May 9, 2015 Millie doesn't know Shit
  • Apr 13, 2015 Mulching
  • Mar 31, 2015 Natural Relations
  • Mar 25, 2015 New Mexico Landscape: A Miraculous Catch of Fish
  • Mar 21, 2015 Night Work
  • Mar 16, 2015 No Respect
  • Mar 15, 2015 Ode to Weeds
  • Mar 12, 2015 Not Yet Spring
  • Mar 7, 2015 Oasis
  • Mar 6, 2015 Oh World!
  • Feb 19, 2015 On the Mountain
  • Feb 2, 2015 Painted Skimmer (Dragonfly)
  • Jan 25, 2015 Peace
  • Jan 22, 2015 Perennial
  • Jan 14, 2015 Picnic
  • Jan 7, 2015 Planting Seeds
  • Dec 17, 2014 Prairie Cathedrals
  • Dec 10, 2014 Prickly Pear
  • Nov 24, 2014 Rabbit
  • Nov 22, 2014 Rain,
  • Nov 12, 2014 Reeds and Clay Tablets
  • Oct 31, 2014 Ritual Enactments
  • Oct 20, 2014 Rubble
  • Sep 18, 2014 Short Lives
  • Sep 4, 2014 Slickrock
  • Sep 2, 2014 Small Fish
  • Aug 30, 2014 Snake
  • Aug 29, 2014 Snow
  • Aug 27, 2014 Snow Falls like Ash
  • Aug 26, 2014 Snowfall in Early December
  • Aug 6, 2014 Space
  • Aug 5, 2014 Spawning
  • Jul 28, 2014 Spring
  • Jul 8, 2014 Surviving Winter
  • Jul 6, 2014 Talk about Blackbirds
  • Jun 20, 2014 The Cloisters
• On Poetry and Art
  • Oct 7, 2016 A Poem Is Knocking (For LJR)
  • Sep 24, 2016 Acne
  • Sep 7, 2016 And Now a Word
  • Aug 27, 2016 Aquifer
  • Aug 25, 2016 Argument
  • Aug 23, 2016 Artistic License
  • Aug 20, 2016 At Gallery 717: Four Paintings
  • Aug 17, 2016 At the Museum
  • Aug 11, 2016 Baby Bird
  • Jul 29, 2016 Beauty as Interaction
  • Jul 27, 2016 Become
  • Jul 11, 2016 Black Knight (Recalling Alice In Wonderland)
  • Jul 8, 2016 Blackberries
  • Jun 24, 2016 Bounty
  • Jun 8, 2016 Caught
  • Jun 4, 2016 Cellist
  • Apr 22, 2016 Country Boy
  • Apr 20, 2016 Creativity
  • Mar 26, 2016 Duck Carver: A Matter of Principle
  • Mar 24, 2016 Defining Beauty: A Meditation
  • Feb 18, 2016 Elegance
  • Feb 16, 2016 Embodiment
  • Feb 12, 2016 Emulating Hymenoptera (For Donald W. Baker)
  • Jan 10, 2016 Flower Garden
  • Jan 2, 2016 Form
  • Jan 1, 2016 Formatting
  • Nov 20, 2015 Gravitas
  • Nov 9, 2015 Haiku and Kin
  • Nov 6, 2015 Response to "Burnt Norton"
  • Oct 31, 2015 Happiness
  • Oct 19, 2015 Heron and Heraclitus
  • Sep 28, 2015 I Have Always Wanted to be a Poet
  • Sep 22, 2015 If I Were A Bird
  • Sep 7, 2015 Inside This World
  • Sep 6, 2015 Insistence
  • Aug 10, 2015 Kindness (For David Ignatow)
  • Aug 6, 2015 Lancelot (Based on Mists of Avalon)
  • Aug 6, 2015 Lancelot II
  • Aug 6, 2015 Lancelot III
  • Jul 28, 2015 Laura
  • Jul 27, 2015 Learn Beauty
  • Jul 20, 2015 Light
  • Jul 20, 2015 Light
  • Jul 14, 2015 Liminality I
  • Jul 13, 2015 Liminality II
  • Jul 11, 2015 Linguistic Politics
  • Jul 5, 2015 Living My Poems
  • Jun 3, 2015 Manhood
  • Jun 1, 2015 Marbles
  • May 25, 2015 Maybe Bureaucrats should be Trained as Poets
  • May 23, 2015 Meaning 1
  • May 22, 2015 Meaning 2
  • May 18, 2015 Meeting
  • Apr 30, 2015 Mood Music
  • Apr 12, 2015 Muse
  • Apr 12, 2015 Muse
  • Apr 8, 2015 My Friend,
  • Apr 6, 2015 My Poetry II
  • Apr 3, 2015 Myth
  • Feb 25, 2015 On Balance
  • Feb 24, 2015 On Learning how to Pronounce Ignatow
  • Feb 22, 2015 On Stage
  • Feb 4, 2015 Pagan Prayer
  • Feb 1, 2015 Painting With Emotion (For Beverly)
  • Jan 31, 2015 Paintings
  • Jan 13, 2015 Podiatrist (1951)
  • Jan 6, 2015 Playing
  • Dec 28, 2014 Poetics
  • Dec 27, 2014 Poetry as a New Kind of Chic
  • Dec 26, 2014 Poets
  • Dec 21, 2014 Posthumous Meeting
  • Dec 18, 2014 Power Lines
  • Dec 15, 2014 Prayer
  • Dec 14, 2014 Precision
  • Dec 9, 2014 Prism
  • Dec 5, 2014 Prospecting
  • Nov 21, 2014 Rain and Words
  • Nov 19, 2014 Rapunzel
  • Nov 17, 2014 Reading
  • Nov 5, 2014 Response to "Sunday Morning": A Dialectic
  • Oct 26, 2014 Rocket Man
  • Oct 22, 2014 Round Up
  • Oct 18, 2014 Rumpelstiltskin
  • Oct 17, 2014 Sacerdotal Significance
  • Oct 9, 2014 Sarah's Path
  • Oct 8, 2014 Saying
  • Oct 4, 2014 Seashell
  • Oct 2, 2014 Secrets
  • Sep 29, 2014 Self Assessment
  • Aug 18, 2014 Someday
  • Aug 8, 2014 Sound
  • Jul 26, 2014 Springtime
  • Jul 19, 2014 Strange Attractor
  • Jul 17, 2014 Street Music
  • Jul 12, 2014 Summer Light
  • Jun 29, 2014 Terseness
  • Jun 28, 2014 Test
  • Jun 27, 2014 Testing the Limits
  • Jun 4, 2014 The Individual Moment,
  • May 29, 2014 The Master
• Politics and Society
  • Oct 3, 2016 A Street Singer named Moses
  • Sep 20, 2016 Advice to Young Males
  • Sep 10, 2016 American Dream
  • Sep 9, 2016 American Macho
  • Sep 8, 2016 Amputee
  • Sep 2, 2016 Anti's Christmas Tree
  • Sep 1, 2016 Antimatter
  • Aug 24, 2016 Armageddon
  • Aug 21, 2016 Aspects of Evil (A Jeremiad)
  • Aug 16, 2016 At Yorktown,
  • Aug 8, 2016 Ballad of the Third Wish
  • Jul 31, 2016 Beast
  • Jul 23, 2016 Bees and Lions, Lions and Bees
  • Jul 22, 2016 Being Right
  • Jul 18, 2016 Beware
  • Jul 13, 2016 Black Children at the Laundromat
  • Jun 23, 2016 Bragging Rights
  • Jun 9, 2016 Cattle Cars
  • Jun 5, 2016 Celestina Cordova
  • May 19, 2016 Color
  • May 14, 2016 Complicated
  • May 10, 2016 Concupiscence
  • May 5, 2016 Consequences
  • May 2, 2016 Continuity
  • Apr 24, 2016 Cost of Freedom
  • Apr 21, 2016 Cows' Statement
  • Apr 17, 2016 Cruelty
  • Apr 15, 2016 Culpability
  • Apr 2, 2016 Dear Enemy,
  • Mar 25, 2016 Defiance
  • Feb 24, 2016 East of Eden (24 Hours)
  • Feb 8, 2016 Eremite Letter
  • Feb 2, 2016 Everlasting Hills
  • Jan 31, 2016 Fable
  • Jan 29, 2016 Faces in America
  • Jan 27, 2016 Family of Man
  • Dec 28, 2015 Freedom
  • Dec 26, 2015 Frugality
  • Dec 23, 2015 Gardening
  • Dec 15, 2015 Giving
  • Dec 14, 2015 Glass Silver Dollar
  • Dec 10, 2015 God's Recreation
  • Dec 1, 2015 Good Old Boys (As frequently portrayed on TV)
  • Nov 28, 2015 Goodbye
  • Nov 19, 2015 Great Satan
  • Nov 15, 2015 Groceries
  • Nov 11, 2015 Gun Logic
  • Nov 4, 2015 Handicapped
  • Oct 29, 2015 Harvest
  • Oct 27, 2015 Hatred
  • Oct 15, 2015 Herd Talk
  • Oct 11, 2015 Homeless
  • Sep 24, 2015 Ideology
  • Sep 23, 2015 If
  • Aug 20, 2015 John Brown
  • Aug 13, 2015 Justice vs. Love
  • Aug 11, 2015 Killing
  • Aug 9, 2015 Knowing
  • Aug 4, 2015 Last Gasp of White America
  • Aug 3, 2015 Last Love Letter to America
  • Jul 6, 2015 Lives We Eat in our Bread
  • Jun 23, 2015 Love in America
  • Jun 19, 2015 Love of Country
  • Jun 18, 2015 Love of Guns
  • Jun 9, 2015 Maine Morning
  • Jun 5, 2015 Man in the Plum Colored Suit
  • Jun 4, 2015 Man on the Subway
  • Jun 3, 2015 Manhood
  • Jun 2, 2015 Mankind
  • May 26, 2015 Matter
  • May 17, 2015 Memorial Day 1991
  • May 1, 2015 Money
  • Apr 9, 2015 My Father's World
  • Mar 28, 2015 Neighbor
  • Mar 26, 2015 New Generation
  • Mar 2, 2015 Of This World
  • Feb 15, 2015 Orcas
  • Feb 13, 2015 Orpheus
  • Feb 11, 2015 Our Fat, Your Fate
  • Feb 10, 2015 Our Daily Bread
  • Feb 9, 2015 Outliers
  • Jan 20, 2015 Perhaps Not Global Warning
  • Jan 14, 2015 Pledge to the Flag
  • Jan 12, 2015 Pilgrimage Americus
  • Dec 22, 2014 Post Surgery
  • Dec 3, 2014 Protecting Freedom
  • Dec 2, 2014 Protest
  • Nov 30, 2014 Public Pool
  • Nov 27, 2014 Purpose
  • Nov 23, 2014 Race
  • Nov 10, 2014 Religious War
  • Oct 29, 2014 Road Kill
  • Oct 25, 2014 Rocking Chairs
  • Oct 16, 2014 Sacred Anger
  • Sep 26, 2014 Sensing
  • Sep 25, 2014 Set Apart
  • Aug 19, 2014 Soldier
  • Aug 14, 2014 Song of War
  • Jul 25, 2014 St. Louis by Moonlight
  • Jul 7, 2014 T-shirts
• Women Wives Lovers
  • Oct 5, 2016 A Snake and A Hole In Kansas
  • Oct 2, 2016 A Thought
  • Sep 26, 2016 Acceptance
  • Sep 22, 2016 Adding to Buddha
  • Sep 15, 2016 After Tea
  • Aug 30, 2016 Ape Man
  • Aug 28, 2016 Apricots
  • Aug 12, 2016 Beauty and Beast /Bed and Breakfast /Bastard and Bard
  • Aug 9, 2016 Balance
  • Jul 28, 2016 Beaver Creek (For Carol)
  • Jun 27, 2016 Born Again
  • Jun 26, 2016 Boston 1.12.70
  • Jun 22, 2016 Breast
  • Jun 17, 2016 California Girl
  • Jun 4, 2016 Cellist
  • Jun 1, 2016 Child's Play
  • May 20, 2016 Cold Nights for Lovers
  • May 15, 2016 Communion
  • Mar 26, 2016 Declination
  • Mar 23, 2016 Demands
  • Mar 15, 2016 Desperation
  • Jan 24, 2016 Farmer's Dream
  • Jan 19, 2016 Favorite Images
  • Dec 12, 2015 Gaps
  • Dec 8, 2015 Goddess
  • Dec 6, 2015 Going Double
  • Nov 14, 2015 Growing Days
  • Nov 12, 2015 Guessing
  • Nov 5, 2015 Halos
  • Nov 2, 2015 Hang On, Go Slow
  • Oct 12, 2015 Homecoming
  • Oct 4, 2015 Hummingbird
  • Oct 3, 2015 Harley Bitch (For Carrie)
  • Sep 26, 2015 Ice Cream
  • Sep 21, 2015 Image (For Maureen)
  • Aug 23, 2015 Jealousy
  • Aug 8, 2015 Knowing Love
  • Jul 23, 2015 Legs: An Ecstasy for the Huntress Diana
  • Jul 10, 2015 Lions
  • Jun 26, 2015 Lorelie (For Lee)
  • Jun 21, 2015 Love is not Brittle
  • Jun 20, 2015 Love is Not Forever
  • Jun 17, 2015 Love Poem
  • Jun 16, 2015 Love's Pain
  • Jun 12, 2015 Madonna,
  • May 30, 2015 Marriage
  • May 2, 2015 Modern Icarus
  • Apr 28, 2015 Morning
  • Apr 28, 2015 Morning
  • Apr 24, 2015 Morning Sun
  • Apr 2, 2015 Name Calling
  • Mar 29, 2015 Nebraska Dreaming
  • Mar 24, 2015 Next to Godliness
  • Mar 23, 2015 Night Pulse
  • Mar 15, 2015 North Michigan Campground
  • Jan 31, 2015 Paintings
  • Jan 29, 2015 Parallels
  • Jan 16, 2015 Philomath, Oregon (1946)
  • Jan 11, 2015 Pink Lady
  • Dec 30, 2014 Poem for Mary
  • Dec 23, 2014 Portrait of a Love Affair
  • Nov 15, 2014 Red
  • Oct 15, 2014 Salt Water Swimming
  • Oct 5, 2014 Seascape
  • Sep 30, 2014 Seesaw of Circumstance
  • Sep 24, 2014 Sexual Power
  • Sep 23, 2014 She Who Knows
  • Sep 19, 2014 Sex-ized and Ostracized
  • Sep 11, 2014 Sing to Me Softly
  • Aug 10, 2014 Soul Food for Winter
  • Jul 30, 2014 Spirited Sex
  • Jun 11, 2014 The Game
  • May 31, 2014 The Man She Knew
  • May 26, 2014 The Old Marrieds
  • May 25, 2014 The Poet in Love with Women
  • May 19, 2014 Simple Act of loving
  • Apr 24, 2014 Thumbelina
  • Apr 11, 2014 Touch I
  • Mar 29, 2014 Tulips
  • Mar 1, 2014 Walking the Walk
  • Feb 27, 2014 When Young
  • Feb 27, 2014 Waltzing Lesson
  • Feb 7, 2014 What about Love?
  • Jan 28, 2014 When All You Can Think of is Sex
  • Jan 2, 2014 Your Beauty