Verse
Poems, odes, and haiku, some collected in Eons and Other Love Poems. The poem "The Rain Dance" is published digitally on Blue Institute's website.
Poems
"3 Hotel Rooms in 4 Stanzas"
"Abuse"
“August Night, 1972”
“A Bad Poem”
“Beach Wedding”
“Becky”
“Beige Beauty” (in Eons and Other Love Poems)
"Cancer"
“Church Poem”
“Come Home to Me, Jean– Winter 1969” (in Eons and Other Love Poems)
"Daylight and Damask"
“Depression Dialogue”
"Descent to Timon's Cave"
”dignity in memory”
“Dropping in a Tome”
“The Drug”
“Endowment”
“Eons” (in Eons and Other Love Poems)
"Famous Last Words"
“Fragment” (in Eons and Other Love Poems)
"From Quatre petites prières de Saint-Francois d'Assise (free translation)
“The Healing Leaf”
“Howl to the Goddess Moon”
"Identity"
"Intelligence"
“Interior Monologue”
“In the Sanctuary before a Service”
“I Suppose it’s Fall”
“Lauren Bursting through Shadows” (in Eons and Other Love Poems)
“‘Let Me Tell You Something about God’ the Minister Said”
"The Market"
“Mistress D”
“The Morning I Died” (in Eons and Other Love Poems)
"No One Tells You"
“The Offended”
“On the Interpretation of My Dreams”
“The Poet and the Lynx”
“The Problem with You” (in Eons and Other Love Poems)
"Promise"
“A Proverb”
“A Psalm”
“The Rain Dance” (2nd Prize, 5th annual Blue Institute Words on Water-Adult Poetry)
“Raised Right”
"The Reason: A Prose-Poem"
“Sifting through Damage: A Collage Poem” (in Eons and Other Love Poems)
“A Southern Woman”
“The Sweetest Lies” (in Eons and Other Love Poems)
"Stormborn"
“Sunset Dissonance”
“The Sun Shines from Her Face” (in Eons and Other Love Poems)
“Toast to Reneé“
“Through the Panic and the Fury” (in Eons and Other Love Poems)
“Trace Fragments”
“The Twentieth Century”
“Two Images”
"Ubi Caritas" (free translation)
“Under the Firmament, Fire”
“Up the Mountainside”
“Vodka”
“[What does it mean to lose a friend?]”
“Why People Drink”
“Working at Wal-mart”
“Wormels”
"Your Spirit Eternal"
Haiku
“[Ah, the French accent]”
“[And where’s the first line?]”
“[Arm and arm we walked]”
“[Around the corner,]”
“[As for the moment]”
“[The baby cries and]”
“[I believe in God]”
“[The blinds stay closed shut]”
“[The broken-rock road]”
“[The boats are out now.]”
“[‘By the time I get’]”
“[The cat paces on]”
“[Came here for people]”
“[A cavalcade of]”
“[I close my eye-lids,]”
“[The day and its hopes!]”
“[Do we have to say]”
“[The Eiffel Tower]”
“[Everyone asleep]”
“[The fat of the arm]”
“[Fill your time with the]”
“[I find communion]”
“[a finger shakes]”
“[I float in the sky.]”
“[Flying at dusk time]”
“[Funny– I embrace]”
“[Goodness, truly is]”
“[I have lost the night]”
“[I judge, I hate the]”
"[In two minutes' time]"
“[I, up the mountain]” (in Eons and Other Love Poems)
“[The kind of person]”
“[Leaves long gone past now]”
“[Like the cackle of]”
“[Like the moon rising]”
“[A man on the sand]”
“[A man pounds a wall]”
“[Mankind kept plowing]”
“[No one wants to be]”
“[Not here– here or there.]”
“[Opportunities]”
“[The quiet moments]”
“[Rain like sheets of glass]”
“[The rockiest road]”
“[She was in her room]”
“[The sky blankets us–]”
“[The silence of the]”
“[Some days tempted shorts]”
“[Sometimes, levelness]”
“[and suddenly falls]”
“[That it was not that]”
“[There’s broke and broken]”
“[These professionals]”
“[Two trees, near us there,]”
“[The weather doesn’t]”
“[Weather is perfect]” (in Eons and Other Love Poems)
“[We rest. Her body]”
“[Why is their anger?]”
“[The world humbles you]”
“[Writing a poem]”
“[Yesterday– perfect.]”
“[You know what I like]”
“[You see her head swarm.]”
“[Youth to adulthood]”
Odes to Country Legends
"Ode to John Denver"
"Ode to Tammy Wynette"
"Ode to Loretta Lynn"
"[The] work conjures emotions and tugs on the heartstrings. I have never enjoyed modern poetry quite as much."
Rachel Killebrew
Librarian/Archivist