Poetry

Volume I:
The Emperor's Clothes

The Emperor's Clothes
Deserts
A Broken Crucifix
Poem about Phoenix
Shell
Desert Wind
How the World Turns
Sword's Edge
One
Oedipus
The Buoy
Apple
New House
The Passing of a Python
Spook Hill
Success
Golden Boy
Sister Lily
September 21st 1995
Stars
Barn Bluff
Flying
Pill Hill
Roots
To My Mother
Excuse me Alexander
The Other Way
Breathing
On Turning Sixty
To M on her Birthday
Life I
Life II
Life III
Poem for Carol
February 14th 2008
from The Mad King
from The Mad Queen
Eternity
To Joe on his 40th Birthday

Volume II:
The Cat's Claw

The Benefits of Beeswax
No Need to Rush
Meeting God
The Trout
The Love Song of Atropos
Old Gods
Oh Clock
The Lamentation of Sisyphus
Letter from Herculaneum 79A.D.
The Eternal Reciprocity of Stars
Another Day
The Sixth Extinction
Dies Irae
The Edge of Light
Explain that Smile
To Bryan
Bryan's Lament
If You Have Gods....
Springtime On Asama
A Prayer
Ghost Houses in Karuizawa, Japan
Old Love
Clowns
If..........
My Orchid
If I Had a Robot That Knew Everything
Money Trees
My Cat's Claw - Ode on a Plant
On the Death of a Fellow Actor
The Judge
The Forensic Pathologists Nightmare
Oh Mr. Valentine...!

Volume III:
The Cyclops et al...

Mortal Thoughts
Must I Leave You Now?
Baggage
Toys
To Marney on Her 69th Birthday
At Seventy Two
Before the Cup was Spilled
The Sick Eagle
Because I Knew
To Know What Love Can Do
ruling the world
Today or Tomorrow
Being Beholden
Old One Eye
in extremis
on the death of a religious man
sounds of buffalo hooves
The Dream of Crazy Horse
The Warmth of the Sun
New World
Two Caves
Waiting
blue steel
Partition
until the end of time
Caementicium
life in dreams
Seeing You in Dreams
The Joke
My Mirror
The Winds are Fair Set
This Imerica
Ghosts
Voice and Sentinel
Must Blood Be Spilled Again?
Old Shit Creek
A Final Lament for the President
Poetry
Looking for the Divine
Happy Valentine's Day

Volume IV:
One Eye

The Birth of One Eye
One Eye Comes Home
One Eye at Two
At The Precise Moment
One Eye Gets Ready
One Eye Sets Forth
The Journey
One Eye and the Eagle
The Humming
The Music
The Kingdom of the Blind
Slow Silences
Five Eagles
Learning

Volume V:
Chrysalis

The Chrysalis
The Russian Doll
Money
A Modern Love Song
Turning to Face the Wall
Will You Grow Weary?
Stand Back
Hope
A Family Feud
The Price
Truth
Ariadne in Old Age Addresses the Gods
The Song of Life
Once Upon a Time...
Womb Song
The Remedy
The Annual Progress Report
Meeting Cerberus at the Gates of Hell
Old Skill
Moonbreak and the Living Time
Are You Content?
Writing House Man
A Private Wake
Living Splendidly
The Sweeper's Art
Winter's Truth
Why We Have Clowns
Please Be Reasonable
Did you Ask the Gods?
Exploding in Small Rooms
The Mysterious Stillness of Leaves
Falling Sparrows
Sniffing the Universe

Volume VI:
New Skies

Most Cherished Memory
Never Stop Dreaming?
Epithalamium
"Where" Do You Want To Be Tomorrow?
I'm Famous Now
It's a Hard Life
Writing Wrongs
Just Life
A Lament
MMXXI
A Difference
Thou Marble Hearted Fiend
Doors
Men Falling in Love
A Prayer to the Great God Mammon
Sweet Afton
Strange Perfection
Conversation with a Madman
Trumpet in the Desert
Under the Desert Sun
Death in the Suburbs
To Haley on her Graduation from Nursing
Sweet Helen
Whistling in the Wind
The Red-Tailed Hawk
A Lament on Aging