Layabout
Do nothing and everything will be done,
that's what Mr. Lao Tzu said, who walked
around talking 2,500 years ago and . . .
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The Layers
I have walked through many lives,
some of them my own,
and I am not who I was,
though some principle of being . . .
Lazy
I don’t say things I don’t want to say
or chew the fat with fat cats just because.
. . .
“oh antic God”
oh antic God
return to me
my mother in her thirties . . .
Le Maudit
Women’s tears are but water;
The tears of men are blood.
. . .
Learning to Love America
because it has no pure products
because the Pacific Ocean sweeps along the coastline . . .
Learning to swim
At forty-eight, to be given water,
which is most of the world, given life
in water, which is most of me, given ease, . . .
Leda
Where the slow river
meets the tide,
a red swan lifts red wings . . .
Leda and the Swan
A sudden blow: the great wings beating still
Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed
By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,
. . .
The Legend
In Chicago, it is snowing softly
and a man has just done his wash for the week.
He steps into the twilight of early evening, . . .
