Archive - 2009 - Poems

Date

Umbria

Thanks and oh yes
for this bright-folding day
green-girdled and sun-stretched,
heavy with lazy stillness,
stirred but not shaken by  read more »

Losing anchor

The ash tree
holds the sky,
chewing chunks of blue
between its boughs.  But beyond
the sky is full again
and stoops towards the tree
to hold its branches.  read more »

If I had stayed at home

If I had stayed at home
on this cold-curling morn
I wouldn’t have seen the frost
hang curtains of still leaves  read more »