SEVEN FOR AOTEAROA

                                                                        Don’t take
                                                                       the steak
                                                                       I ain’t
                                                                       Dunedin.
                                                                           —Robert Creeley, Hello

Ear Shot

Here is the spare

aside the locker room

where I am marooned

 

Thermal Gardens

This

is not the blue

lake or pink

lake or orange

lake—just a

lake, landed

by an unobliging

perseverance who

snaps, world

weary, not worried

& all the

pushchairs plod

along the potted

parts.

The Beauty of Brevity, the Bananas of Antibes

Poussin did not eat baloney.

 

 

Harsh Light

I don’t think I

can keep her

from the lighter

much longer

 

 

Free Turn

If I had a dime
for every hour I’ve had
peace of mind
I’d still be a poor man

[or]

I was gay & carefree
but now I am grave with
responsibility

 

 

No Pastrami

Walt! I’m with you in Sydney
Where the echoes of Mamaroneck howl
Down the outback’s pixilating corridors

 

 

Historic Bookplates of California

No end to envy.

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