Beauty: impurities in the rock
"Lake Superior"
We are what the seas
have made us
longingly immense
*
Ah your face
but it's whether
you can keep me warm
*
Sewing a dress
The need
these closed-in days
to move before you
smooth-draped
and color-elated
in a favorable wind
*
Shelter
Holed damp
cellar-black beyond
the main atrocities
my sense of propriety's
adrift
have made us
longingly immense
*
Ah your face
but it's whether
you can keep me warm
*
Sewing a dress
The need
these closed-in days
to move before you
smooth-draped
and color-elated
in a favorable wind
*
Shelter
Holed damp
cellar-black beyond
the main atrocities
my sense of propriety's
adrift
"Traces of Living Things"
Pigeons
(I miss the gulls)
mourn the loss
of people
no wild bird does
Pigeons
(I miss the gulls)
mourn the loss
of people
no wild bird does
"Wintergreen Ridge"
Effort lay in us
ReplyDeletebefore religions
at pond bottom
All things move toward
the light
except those
that freely work down
to oceans' black depths
In us an impulse tests
the unknown
*
Not all harsh sounds displease -
Yellowhead blackbirds cough
through reeds and fronds
and through pronged bronze
"Paean to Place"
Hi Carrie. A bit of boring, but hopefully useful, advice: one way to create a false but effective indentation is to prefix the line with three or four Xs (eg. xxxtext here) and then set the colour of the Xs to the background colour of your blog. Obviously if people highlight the text the trick's undone, but otherwise it works quite well.
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