Explore Poems: Nature

Rock or tree, inflexion
of tree, wild asparagusand watercress, weeping
and leaving, parting andfleeing, atmosphere
as always the distance...

The dry stubble of the field
wilts under the rain,
                    soft as jaw hair

under a hot towel. The summer
is a …

And still one looks to the tree to paraphrase the sky, arbiter of wind and sun. The hills with their…

Forgive my trespass, I mistook for work a crown
of raspberries and custard. Thank you, tartlet, thank…

Every day is perfect, if
when you wake, you hear birds
in the garden, in the yard. Birds

up and down, ushering…

We take the N out to the turnaround.
The only thing to come now is the sea.
The ice plants make the pink…

to the tune “he xin lang: toasting the bridegroom”Now that I am old and those who crossed the mountains…

甚矣吾衰矣。
怅平⽣、交游零落，只今余⼏！
⽩发空垂三千丈，⼀笑⼈间万事。
问何物、能令公喜？
我见青⼭多妩媚，料青⼭见我应如是。
情与貌，略相似。

⼀尊搔⾸东窗⾥。
想渊明、《停云》诗就，此时风味。
江左沉酣求名者…

When we meet at the holiday table, we take turns
and great pains not to remind each other
of our mutual…

I don’t want to get emails from
            the wolf people anymore, but
they know where I am—have known
            precisely…

Last night, at the excavation: pig wine & a searchlight moon. We watched seven equidistant stars make…

I'm a sea since I could never have been a river
An unchanneled sea
of green merriments
and solitary depths…

Dá’ák’eh     ahooł’níi niłch’i  doo   naadą́ą́.
Naadą́   niłch’i
Doo     Sodizin.
Niłchi     adiin             goo
Sodizin bee ’adoolnii…

Abínígo ch’iłbaa hózhóní
ch’ínádzi’,
Bí ch’ilátahózhóón nídiich’ah
dóó ádík’as,
Tłeé’go ch’łbaahózhóní
ná…

 ániid nahóółtą́

 ániidigo
 nahóółtą́ą

 chxósh

chxósh

 chxósh

 chxósh

 naanahóółtą́

k’ad
 nááts…

only I stood in the rain with wet skin. I could taste the dew though it had not yet found my lips. …

Last Easter, I gave my mother-in-law a large, brown, simple ceramic
            Navajo water pot, shiny with pine…