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This selection of my poems, which I have listed in alphabetical order, include nature, spiritual, political and more individual themes.
RECENT POEMS
Arthritic Hands
As If The Bay Were Breathing
But It's Only A Tree
Her Daughter's Eulogy
In A Shaft Of Light
Leaves Floating
Lord Of The Estate
Tree Or Wood
SELECTED POEMS
A Flock of Leaves A Prairie Of Spartina Grass (A Prose-Poem) A Tree's Prayer Air Dissolves Into Water Alone Now Alternative Lives An Apparition Artist's Colors, Exterior and Interior Assisted Living At The Edge Bathing Beauties Bayman's Haiku Black Box Blended Family Breathing The Build-Up Burying Mommy Calm Day On The Water Coming Home Company Costa Rica Dealing With Defeat Deflation Deluge (A Prose-Poem) Early Spring Earphones Eight By Eighteen Inches Elijah's Chariot Enough To Stop The Heart Erratics And Kettle Holes Face Facing The Corner Fantasy In The Chill Of A Pale Gray Day Fear Filigree of Branches Flowers Struggle Footprints Fred's Birthday Fur Coat Generations God Bless America God Drawing In The Sky God The Juggler Gold Watch Good Night Kiss Gray Sheet Hammock Is A Basket He Won't Sleep In Their Bed Her Day Dream Horntails How Beautiful Is Its Fur ICU I Felt Like A Boy Again If I Weren't Afraid Imagined Pleasures In Early Spring In March In Praise Of Childishness Irony January Tears Jointing Boards Kayaking Lake Taghkanic Kissing In Shul Late October Like A Tulip Listen To The Stillness Logger Low Tide Lupines Magnificent Malevolent Mist The Man Holding The Paper Cup Matisse's Pink Nude Mercy Killing Merely Missing Mist Sky Mommy, Daddy, Daughter Night Club Dancers Noon Garden Tour With My Granddaughter Not Wind-Up Toys Outside My Window The Note Park Scene Parkway Party On The Parkway Pay Homage to Winter Perhaps Planting Irises Purpose Quiet Enough To Hear God Rally To Save Darfur Refugees Releasing The Light Repentance Roots Exposed Roses And Cow Manure Secret Shame September 10, 2001 Sign Of Things To Come Sleep Sneakers Soft As Kisses Sometimes We Need Saving Staring Into The Black Staying Alive Staying In The Lines Suburban Sky Suburban Street Surrealism In Shocking-Pink The Sun So Angry Sweet SolitudeSycamore Tree Tears Temple Rummage Numbers The First Night And Day The Inn's Parking LotThe Ship of State The Unseen ElevatorThe Way of All Flesh There Is A Man There's A Story In The GarbageThin Hipped Herons This Morning's Eternity Tides Times Square, December 31, 2001 Too Still To Breathe Touching Transplanting Tree Pictures Two Notes "...Under The Apple Tree..." Valentines The Waitress Washington On The Eve Of War We Are All Diminished We Live In Such A World Wetlands And Chain Stores What Goes Unsaid White Ferry, Black Crows White Pine And Me Who Lives, Who Dies Who Would Have Believed Winter Airing Winter Gray Winter Music Yitzchak You You'd Try Everything
A Prairie Of Spartina Grass (A Prose-Poem)
A Tree's Prayer
Air Dissolves Into Water
Alone Now
Alternative Lives
An Apparition
Artist's Colors, Exterior and Interior
Assisted Living
At The Edge
Bathing Beauties
Bayman's Haiku
Black Box
Blended Family
Breathing
The Build-Up
Burying Mommy
Calm Day On The Water
Coming Home
Company
Costa Rica
Dealing With Defeat
Deflation
Deluge (A Prose-Poem)
Early Spring
Earphones
Eight By Eighteen Inches
Elijah's Chariot
Enough To Stop The Heart
Erratics And Kettle Holes
Face
Facing The Corner
Fantasy In The Chill Of A Pale Gray Day
Fear
Filigree of Branches
Flowers Struggle
Footprints
Fred's Birthday
Fur Coat
Generations
God Bless America
God Drawing In The Sky
God The Juggler
Gold Watch
Good Night Kiss
Gray Sheet
Hammock Is A Basket
He Won't Sleep In Their Bed
Her Day Dream
Horntails
How Beautiful Is Its Fur
ICU
I Felt Like A Boy Again
If I Weren't Afraid
Imagined Pleasures
In Early Spring
In March
In Praise Of Childishness
Irony
January Tears
Jointing Boards
Kayaking Lake Taghkanic
Kissing In Shul
Late October
Like A Tulip
Listen To The Stillness
Logger
Low Tide
Lupines
Magnificent
Malevolent Mist
The Man Holding The Paper Cup
Matisse's Pink Nude
Mercy Killing
Merely
Missing
Mist Sky
Mommy, Daddy, Daughter
Night Club Dancers
Noon Garden Tour With My Granddaughter
Not Wind-Up Toys
Outside My Window
The Note
Park Scene
Parkway
Party On The Parkway
Pay Homage to Winter
Perhaps
Planting Irises
Purpose
Quiet Enough To Hear God
Rally To Save Darfur
Refugees
Releasing The Light
Repentance
Roots Exposed
Roses And Cow Manure
Secret Shame
September 10, 2001
Sign Of Things To Come
Sleep
Sneakers
Soft As Kisses
Sometimes We Need Saving
Staring Into The Black
Staying Alive
Staying In The Lines
Suburban Sky
Suburban Street
Surrealism In Shocking-Pink
The Sun So Angry
Sweet Solitude
Sycamore Tree
Tears
Temple Rummage Numbers
The First Night And Day The Inn's Parking LotThe Ship of State The Unseen ElevatorThe Way of All Flesh There Is A Man There's A Story In The GarbageThin Hipped Herons This Morning's Eternity Tides Times Square, December 31, 2001 Too Still To Breathe Touching Transplanting Tree Pictures Two Notes "...Under The Apple Tree..." Valentines The Waitress Washington On The Eve Of War We Are All Diminished We Live In Such A World Wetlands And Chain Stores What Goes Unsaid White Ferry, Black Crows White Pine And Me Who Lives, Who Dies Who Would Have Believed Winter Airing Winter Gray Winter Music Yitzchak You You'd Try Everything
The Inn's Parking Lot
The Ship of State
The Unseen Elevator
The Way of All Flesh
There Is A Man
There's A Story In The Garbage
Thin Hipped Herons
This Morning's Eternity
Tides
Times Square, December 31, 2001
Too Still To Breathe
Touching
Transplanting
Tree Pictures
Two Notes
"...Under The Apple Tree..."
Valentines
The Waitress
Washington On The Eve Of War
We Are All Diminished
We Live In Such A World
Wetlands And Chain Stores
What Goes Unsaid
White Ferry, Black Crows
White Pine And Me
Who Lives, Who Dies
Who Would Have Believed
Winter Airing
Winter Gray
Winter Music
Yitzchak
You
You'd Try Everything
