Driving Without License: Early Poems

photo by Victoria Pak

A GIFT OF LOVE
AEC ORDINANCE
AGAINST RITUALS
AGAINST WEAPONS
ALL ELBOWS ABOVE GRASS
MESSAGE FROM OPENED BONE
ANIMAL TOUCH
APOCRYPHA
APPLE GREEN
A TRANSLATION
BEDROOM
BORROWED SPIDER
BROWN HORSES
CACOPHONIC RHYTHM
CANOPY
COMING HOME
CRADLE OF STONE AND AIR
COILS
CONTINUUM
CONVERSATION
DAY – BRIGHT SPRING
DESOLATE AMERICA
DOG AT A STOPLIGHT
DREAMING LIZARD
DRIVING BY
EARTH
ERRAND TO ANOTHER COUNTRY
EXPO 67
FALL 1967
FALL RIVER
FIRE IN A VACUUM
FIRST WHITE SOUNDS
FOR THE OLD THE YOUNG
GAZELLES
GLEAM
GOLD WASH
GOOD RUST
GREAT PLAINS AND WEST
GROUNDING 2
HIATUS I
HAITUS II
HELLO, A LETTER I FOUND
HOMECOMING
IMPOST: ROCKY MOUNTAINS
IF YOU DON’T MIND
IN A NEW SEASON
IN DARKNESS
IN REMEMBERANCE OF M.D.F.
IN THE EARLY MORNING
LATE STORM
LEGEND FOR EARLY AFTERNOON
LEGEND FOR LATE NIGHT
LIFE ELEMENTED QUARTO
LONG HILL
LOST HAWK
LOVE CHORUS
LOVE, WE LIE TO TALK
MAN AND HIS SYMBOLS
MATRIX: STONE
MESSAGE FROM OPENED BONE
MIDPOINT
MIRAGE, LA QUINTA
MORNING
MOWING
MUSIC FOR A DRY WHISPER
MY ENRAGED BULK OF DAYS
MY HARD PLAINS
MY PLAINS
NEO-ROMANTIC
NIGHT SCENE
NORTH OF PORTLAND
NOT-REALLY BILLY
NOT TO LEAVE OUR LOVE UNTRIED
NOVITIATE
ON
ON LOOKING UP
ON LOVING OR DYING
ONE FOR A DOG OUT SHOPPING
OUR LADY:  THE PALOMINO WE CALLED QUEEN
OVER CHAOS
PAIRS AND OPPOSITES
PILGRIMAGE ON THE GRASS
POEM FOR HER BIRTHDAY
POEM JUST BEFORE SLEEPING
POET
POETIC AT ABLE CREEK
PROGRAM FOR A FIRE
READINESS: HAWAIIAN NIGHT
RED AND WHITE
REQUIEM FOR MUD TURTLES
RITUAL
SANDWICH JOINT AFTER CHRISTMAS
SEPTEMBER 20, 1962
SIDEWALK 1
SIDEWALK II
SILHOUETTE
SILO FILLING
SLEEP CLOSE TO EARTH
SNOWSTORM
SUMMIT: CHICAGO
SUNSET: WAITING AT AN AIRPORT
SUPPLE
SWEPT BY A STORM
SWIFT DRUMS FOR AN ABSTRACT SONG
TAMED TRUNK
TETE A TETE
THAT A BOY STOPPED
THAT PAIN, BRINGING LIGHT
THE CLIMB
THE FATHER’S SON
THE GIFTS
THE NEED
THE OTHER
THE RIDE
THE STAFF, THE ELM, THE SHELTERING WALL
THIS SHELL OF YEARS
TIDE
TO LADY ASTONISHED BY MY SAYING “I LOVE YOU TODAY”
TO MY BROTHERS, TO MAKE MUCH OF THEIR TIME
TRUMPET, CYMBAL, AND DRUM
TUMBLE
TWO WAYS OF LOOKING
UNCONCIOUS, LIKE A GOD, OF DETAILS
WALLED
WEDDING SONG
WHAT SHAPE OF FIRE AND FRUIT
WILDERNESS
WINTER BIRD
WORK’S  END