Then the war: and selected poems, 2007-2020

Then the war

1

Invasive species

Of California

That the gods must rest

The enchanted bluff

Little shields, in starlight

Morning in the bowl of night

Blue-winged warbler

Not wild, merely free

He didn't raise hand or voice

In a field, at sunset

The difficulty

In a low voice, slowly

Fixed shadow, moving water

Somewhere, right now, a hawk

Sing a darkness

Among the trees

2

While night still keeps us

Then the war

As the rain comes down harder

Something to believe in

The blue door

Rough surf in moonlight

Like the sweet wet earth itself

On coming close

Electric

Soft western light

Everything all of it

Blurry finally in too soon each of us

Only portions of the map still legibly survive

Archery

Initial descent

To autumn

Of the shining underlife

Anywhere like peace

Entire known world so far

Night comes and passes over me

This far in

Selected poems, 2007-2020

From speak low

Speak low

Mirror, window, mirror

Captivity

In a perfect world

Distortion

Storm

Now in our most ordinary voices

The raft

From double shadow

Fascination

Continuous until we stop

The grass not being flesh, nor flesh the grass

The need for dreaming

Almost tenderly

Glory on

Civilization

Immaculate each leaf, and every flower

Heaven and earth

From silverchest

So the mind like a gate swings open

After the afterlife

Black swan on water, in a little rain

Neon

Your body down in gold

Anyone who had a heart

Dominion

But waves, they scatter

Silverchest

From reconnaissance

Reconnaissance

The darker powers

Steeple

Capella

For long to hold

Foliage

The strong by their stillness

Faintly, with falling stars

Spring

From wild is the wind

Swimming

Brothers in arms

Musculature

Not the waves as they make their way forward

Gold leaf

What I see is the light falling all around us

If you go away

For it felt like power

Monomoy

Wild is the wind

The sea, the forest

From pale colors in a tall field

On being asked to be more specific when it comes to longing

Pale colors in a tall field

For nothing tender about it

Dirt being dirt

A little closer though, if you can, for what got lost here

Yet no less grateful

Is it true all legends once were rumors

Overheard, under a dark enchantment

If it must be winter

Defiance

Star map with action figures

And if I fall

Dangerous only when disturbed

Wake up

On triumph

Unbridled

We turn here

To lie down. To wear nothing at all.

Reasonable doubt

Fine

And swept all visible signs away

Honest in which not gently

Self

Soundtrack for the frame of winter

Star map with action figures

My monster

All the love you've got.

Then the war. Among the trees

Selected poems, 2007-2020. Speak low

Double shadow

Silverchest

Reconnaissance

Wild is the wind

Pale colors in a tall field

Star map with action figures.