Eagle Plain
The American eagle is not aware he is
the American eagle. He is never tempted
to look modest. . . .
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Eagle Poem
To pray you open your whole self
To sky, to earth, to sun, to moon
To one whole voice that is you. . . .
Early Affection
I lov’d thee from the earliest dawn,
When first I saw thy beauty’s ray,
And will, until life’s eve comes on, . . .
Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest
In his fifth year the son, deep in the backseat
of his father’s Ford and the mysterium
of time, holds time in memory with words, . . .
Eating Poetry
Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry. . . .
Eating Together
In the steamer is the trout
seasoned with slivers of ginger,
two sprigs of green onion, and sesame oil. . . .
Echo
Echo that loved hid within a wood
Would to herself rehearse her weary woe:
O, she cried, and all the rest unsaid . . .
Echo
Come to me in the silence of the night;
Come in the speaking silence of a dream;
Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright . . .
Ecology
Surrounded by bone, surrounded by cells,
by rings, by rings of hell, by hair, surrounded by
air-is-a-thing, surrounded by silhouette, by honey-wet bees, yet . . .
Ego
I just didn’t get it—
even with the teacher holding an orange (the earth) in one hand
and a lemon (the moon) in the other, . . .
