Two poems from the forthcoming book, Descartes' Loneliness:

Descartes' Loneliness

The Caedmon Room

 

From Sweet Youth: Poems by a Young Man and an Old Man, Old and New, 2002:

The Thrush Returns from the Waste and Void

 

From How to Do Things with Tears, 2001:

Enough Rain for Agnes Walquist

 

From The Ether Dome and Other Poems: New & Selected, 1991:

Pat's Poem

The Ballad of the Bone Boat

The Lecture

The Piano Player Explains Himself

The Life and Death Kisses

Poland of Death (IV)