Posted in poems on Jan 27th, 2010 No Comments »
So it begins. Adam is in his earth
Tempted, and fallen, and his doom made sure
Oh, in the very instant of his birth:
Whose deathly nature must all things endure.
The hungers of his flesh, and mind, and heart.
That governed him when he was in the womb,
These ravenings multiply in every part:
And shall release him only to the […]
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Posted in poems on Jan 25th, 2010 No Comments »
Let Evening Come
Let the light of late afternoon
shine through chinks in the barn, moving
up the bales as the sun moves down.
Let the cricket take up chafing
as a woman takes up her needles
and her yarn. Let evening come.
Let dew collect on the hoe abandoned
in long grass. Let the stars appear
and the moon disclose her silver horn.
Let […]
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