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Best Man
Forward For Chuck The Love of a Mentor Interview with Asa Baber
Forms of Love
The Rose's Thorns Almost a Double Ballade Ache The Y Listening Absolution Parting Leaving Eurydice On the Town Happiness The Silent Time Moving In After Making Love Isaac Dreams of Rebekah at the Moment of His Sacrifice Paradise The Bridge If You Should Ever Return Hunting Season Another Year
Feeding the Crow
Waiting for Mercy
Letters of Roy Bedichek
Afterword
New Growth
Introduction
Recent Poems
Deconstruction Nostalgia
Road Home
Searching a Parking Lot... 290 West "Hamlet" Black Bowl with Apples If You Should Ever Return Lying in a Hammock in Rose Mountain, New Mexico These are things I've been wanting to tell you Late Night A Dream of Grace The Laying on of Hands
Shape Shifter
Awaiting Word Midlife Christmas The Other Writers Block After Hades, Always Persephone ConVersing IX
Short Fiction
5th Edition: Preface 6th Edition: Preface
Through the Fire
Recovering from a Good Mother
A Man's Adventure in Poetry and Tears The ghosts in These Muscles Warning To My Wife A Fire of Cold Ashes The Visitation The Water Moans Love Song from the Country of Memory In the Company of Men The Light Through the Peaks Mother and Son: First Meeting The Vision Grieving for My Parents Someone's Wife Breasts The Skinny Man Does not Swim Bats and Butterflies The Waters of My Dreams Waking to Dreams Recovering from a Good Mother
Text & Commentary
I have Dreamed a Hundred Whispers Morning Prayers, Night Prayers #6 The Drying Leaves Cancer The Drawing The Light through the Peaks Found Things

Forms of Love

Parting

turning from the door
    clear of ocean's hungry waves
        one fish shimmering



a glistening tear 
    soothing desire's scarlet face 
        the door does not close



on maroon carpet
    a silver earring kissed free
        turning toward the door
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Last updated: January 15 2008