P o e m s
“Every good poem begins in language awake to its own connections — language that hears itself and what is around it, sees itself and what is around it, looks back at those who look into its gaze and knows more perhaps even than
we do about who are, what we are.”
—Jane Hirshfield
But Did You Ever Feel
But did you ever feel
more like a species
Of happiness, an inhabitant of tides, an oystercatcher among oysters …