Advice to a Writer Imagining Conception and Birth
Look for a tree stump in the woods. Compare it to love …
Look for a tree stump in the woods. Compare it to love …
clean steel: inflexible, but
where they’re strong
is where they’re weak.
Now that I’m fifty, let me take my showers at night …
The way the light and shadow / Go one with their tug-of-war …
If you give a government trapper /
a roadkill armadillo, /
he’s likely to take it home.