Selected Poems: 2006-2025

From Animal, Plant, Mineral

THE CHRISTENING (2)
CLEARING
RAIN-MAKING
MARROW

EARLY HIGH DESERT RAIN, OUT
LOOKING FOR FIRE

From Letters and Poems of Buffalo Bill Cody and Annie Oakley

THE REINS
INTERDICTION
ODYSSEUS AT TOMBSTONE
BILL THE GEOGRAPHER
BILL CONFESSES THE ATTRACTION OF OPPOSITES
SOMETIMES
COVENANT
THE JOURNEY
ANNIE INVITES HER SOUL
DEAR BILL
MY ANNIE. NEW YEAR’S DAY
From OLD BILL’S WAYS

From Driving Without License: Early Poems

ALL ELBOWS ABOVE GRASS
APPLE GREEN
A TRANSLATION
CRADLE OF STONE AND AIR
DREAMING LIZARD
LIFE ELEMENTED QUARTO
LONG HILL
MATRIX: STONE
NOT-REALLY BILLY
OUR LADY:  The Palomino We Called Queen
POET
READINESS: HAWAIIAN NIGHT
RITUAL
SILO FILLING
TO MY BROTHERS, TO MAKE MUCH OF THEIR TIME

From Motions

MEMORY BODY
MOTIONS OF PASSAGE
OUTSIDE IN
PREPARING OURSELVES

From Firestick

FIRST SONG FOR THE BEAUTY WAY BLESSING
GENERATIONS
OFFERING
SECOND SONG FOR THE BEAUTY WAY
THE SUNSET BECOMES A BURNING TEMPLE, PULSES LIGHT
WHAT WANTS TO GROW

From Five Seasons

FINALLY THE RAIN
ANOTHER WAR
CEREMONY
TODAY
CELEBRATION
IN MEMORIUM
COLD WIND

From Pizarro’s Undiscovered Isthmus

THE BONES
GOODBYE AT LINDBERG FIELD
OF HEARING, OF LISTENING
THE SECRET

From The Autonomous She

AUTONOMOUS FORCE/ BRIGHT DAY
CRADLE OF STONE AND AIR
OUTSIDE, SOMETIMES
TODAY MY TIMING’S OFF AND
TONIGHT
CELLO
RASPBERRIES AND CHAMPAGNE
SHE IS DANCING

From Biographies: Uncollected Poems: 2000-2010

TO MELVILLE: WATER AIR EARTH FIRE
NO SMALL THING
THE WORDLESS GREEN
PLANTS TALK:  THE JOYFUL ROOTS IN SADNESS
HORTICULTURE
THE PAUSE
SPRING EQUINOX  2003
DANCE
CURFEW SONG
GOODBYE TO THE WIND
THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL
THE SIGNS
BIRTHDAY PARTY AT THE RIVER
THE TRIP
THE QUESTION, THE STORY
FAMILY MEETING

From Lunacy

THE PURIFICATION, THE TENTH MOON
FOR THE COLD MOON WHEN HORSES GET SKINNY I FLEE TO AFRICA
REGINA’S KINGDOM
THE WATER-BEARING MOON
WHITE PERTHIAN MOON