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Glimmerglass

  • Upon Seeing a Photograph of the Parthenon

    I am drawn to its light, Like a moth to a lamp. Shot from the ArcherSomewhere behind, An arrow of fireIgnites the columnsFrom within,Like the kerosene flameBehind stained glass.The white ...

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  • Gone Again

    Quiet waters, and the bridge over pale lightmasks the dusky road. I would like to seethe afternoon lightswallow you upin the faint taste of autumn. Here I stand;the roses are ...

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  • The Adirondacks to New York City

    Cement mountains; ah!Irony of succession,You will destroy me. Note: Haiku written while gazing at the forest.

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  • Pearls

    PearlsI like to think that you planned that evening in perfectprecision, like the wide stretch of pink over teeth, pearls rounded to sweetnessby the caustic tightness of salt. How the ...

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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
— H. L. Mencken