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
Have You Seen
… the way the trees—that sclerophyll fraternity on the mountain—swarm
Like Dante’s shades as you drive among them in the rain on the way down …