Dire Straits You think wheelchairs race the corridor at night, see letters on the mountain, ask me what they spell,...
Rocky and rolling hills give way To green green grass and a glimpse of brighter days Inland from the sea...
A Thin Place If you walk in a straight line across the beach from the footpath which runs between blue...
You will ask—name the mushrooms on the grounded log And the anatomies of the shifting clouds. Tell me these fifty-one shells on...
The question may be raised why we chose precisely the past of a city to compare with the past of...
Rite of Passage In Bali, it’s the filing of the canines to limit boys’ wild adolescence. Among Cameroon’s Baka Pygmies...
‘Tick-tock, tick-tock’ goes the clock in the bedroom he shares with no-one. He sees that it is time to rise...
Alabama April If you reenact the last painful moment I’ll love you harder than a civil war drama on a...
The vocabulary of whisper begins with fog over the river, a white break in the cloud cover, the great mastiffs,...
Dark turf The breeze stirred ferns on the high bank. I watched you drop down the layers of Cloneen bog, then...
All day they mumble in a clump outside the hive. I water the days of an unexpected life. I fill...
Daughter of the Deep Places A hardwood doesn’t settle in its spot Out of any preference for that spot. She...