I will love who loves me
I will love as much as I am loved
I will hate who hates me
I will feel nothing for everyone oblivious to me
I will stay indifferent to indifference
I will live hostile to hostility
I will make myself a passionate and eager lover in response to passionate and eager love

I will be nobody’s fool

Love tore apart all my theories ( Read more... )

Recede from internet ( Read more... )

The redwood in our backyard is seen by three ( Read more... )

People need people ( Read more... )

nothing was fervent. nothing was budding. everything was ( Read more... )

Middle of the night I wake and realize I've been assembling
an acknowledgments page, not a book. Middle of the night I wake
to rain, quiet, time passing in the dark. You know, they do pay
for poems. $50 or so, direct deposit sometimes, ten burritos
or an oil change, and all I have to do is slant wreath
and grief, shudder and brother, break the ( Read more... )

I sit in the psychiatric unit ( Read more... )

I tend to love quiet now in my evening years ( Read more... )

I WAS THERE! I WAS THERE! I WAS ALWAYS ( Read more... )