Monthly Archives: November 2010

Villanelle

This poem was written when I was in graduate school. I had been having a pen-pal correspondence and we’d been discussing poetry, formal and free-form. He contended that formal poetry could not be spontaneous, and that free-form poetry was more … Continue reading

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Day Break

This poem was inspired by a specific morning. I’d spent the night with my best friend: we’d built a tent from blankets in her back yard, and slept out there in the summer night, watching the bats circling above the … Continue reading

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Winter Night

This poem was inspired by late winter nights in Michigan when I was growing up. Particularly returning home after midnight New Year’s Eve services. Empty streets, new-fallen snow, ice frozen on branches….

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