Blood and Tide (Esmond Series)
. . . but the edges have eroded, bluntered and edgeless. Warfarin-thin. A swiftwater rush, . . . Esmond breathes.
Upon This Night We Sing; per nozze
Those ancient practices of bedding ceremonies and virgin-testing are, fortunately, behind us.
Multitudes
Admittedly, this “poem” has a bit of inside/very local humor, mostly as an affront to aesthetic decency. Still . . .
Mansur of Dasht-e Kavir
The masnavi is a kind of Persian narrative poetry with rhyming couplets, often with morals around Sufi mysticism, ethics, and theology. My lessons are perhaps more deconstructive illuminations.
Of Kings and Things
When writing children’s verse, it’s hard to see where sincerity ends and parody begins . . . .
Phantom
Concrete poetry depends on the poem’s shape on the page for some of its meaning. I remember doing these as kids, yes, but now . . . ?
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