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In the poetry of attention, poems are not problems.
One life one life and a broken tree it two trees mine a dead branch among the hundred living
The fossil record quietly accounts for me...
Love makes us infamous when love is coldly true
Beauty for Beauty's sake and only later for the sake of others, newborn for a day.
The poetry of attention is not metaphysical. It trusts the opened eye to see. By faith, the eye stays open. And so the work of poetry is trust that, by faith, is shown to be no work at all.
the rest are secrets save for oriole which is a color in the afterlife
the fragrance of a sound
As it turns out, craft is to poetry what invention is to imagination--not antithetical, but needless. The eye does not invent the light; there's no need. The mind makes no materials; it doesn't have to. Imagination is the present state of things, and poems rejoice--in particular, in detail--that this is so. Again, the only work is trust, a trust rewarded by ease and by betterment.
Humanness is a window thrown against a wall.
There is a heaven of disembodied voices
The grit of the deathbed earth grows soft
the murmuring priests
Some motionless conflict in the sky
Pigeon, your wings are no good.
the world is no fit place for human beings. we harm and ache.
Still, I love a crowd of us.
And so it was that I became an anthology piece translated along with many others out of the French into your small arms though I am a phantom
Creation is the miniature of creation
what use is a childhood?
the distance fills and nearness is a void
The shadows of leaves are addressed to immortality
I have caught sight of my true friend rounding the hillside in his cloak of rain
Creation's the soul of haphazard.
