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Music Lessons

Sometimes, in the middle of the lesson,we exchanged places. She would gaze a moment at her handsspread over the keys; then the small house with its knick-knacks,its shut windows, its photographs of her sons and the serious husband,vanished as new…

Snakes in Winter

Deep in the woods,under the sprawled upheavals of rocks, dozens lie coiled together.Touch them: they scarcely breathe; they stareout of such deep forgetfulness that their eyes are like jewels—and asleep, though they cannot close. And in each mouth the forked…

Sleeping in the Forest

I thought the earthremembered me, shetook me back so tenderly, arrangingher dark skirts, her pocketsfull of lichens and seeds. I sleptas never before, a stoneon the riverbed, nothingbetween me and the white fire of the starsbut my thoughts, and they…

Three Poems for James Wright

1. Hearing of Your IllnessI went outfrom the news of your illnesslike a broken boneI spoke your nameto the sickle moon and saw her white wingfall back toward the blackness, but sherowed deep past that hesitation, andkept rising.Then I went…

The Rabbit

Scatterghost,it can’t float away.And the rain, everybody’s brother,won’t help. And the wind all these daysflying like ten crazy sisters everywherecan’t seem to do a thing. No one but me,and my hands like fire,to lift him to a last burrow. I…

At Blackwater Pond

At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settledafter a night of rain.I dip my cupped hands. I drinka long time. It tasteslike stone, leaves, fire. It falls coldinto my body, waking the bones. I hear themdeep inside me, whisperingoh what…

In Blackwater Woods

Look, the treesare turningtheir own bodiesinto pillars of light,are giving off the richfragrance of cinnamonand fulfillment, the long tapersof cattailsare bursting and floating away overthe blue shoulders of the ponds,and every pond,no matter what itsname is, is nameless now.Every yeareverythingI…

Tecumseh

I went down not long agoto the Mad River, under the willowsI knelt and drank from that crumpled flow, call itwhat madness you will, there’s a sicknessworse than the risk of death and that’sforgetting what we should never forget.Tecumseh lived…

Blackberries

I come down.Come down the blacktop road from Red Rock.A hot day. Off the road in the hacked tanglesblackberries big as thumbs hang shiningin the shade. And a creek nearby: a darkspit through wet stones. And a pool like a…

The Roses

One day in summerwhen everythinghas already been more than enoughthe wild beds startexploding open along the bermof the sea; day after dayyou sit near them; day after daythe honey keeps on comingin the red cups and the beeslike amber drops…