Book spine poem: Reading
Reading Oh, the places you’ll go! Into the west, beyond the hundredth meridian. To the Finland station, PrairyErth, Istanbul, Alexandria, The pillars of Hercule...
Category: Poetry, etc.
Book spine poem: Lives of the Trees
Lives of the Trees Dream days beyond good and evil. Green darkness, Arcadia. Giants in the earth, Song of the sky, Plants that changed the world. Heart of the l...
Found poems: Days of Obligation and Devotion
The following were adapted from A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Catholic Laity: The Official Prayer Book of the Catholic Church, prepared and published b...
Book spine poem: The Library at Night
The Library at Night Cosmos and history, metaphor and memory, Emblems of mind on paper. The origins of knowledge and imagination; The signal and the noise. Simp...
Book spine poem: The Home Planet
This book spine poem was inspired by American poet Robinson Jeffers, whose work I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. The Home Planet Wind in the rock, R...
Book spine poem: What Is History?
What Is History? A backward glance, Gods, graves, and scholars. Noah’s flood, Hadrian’s memoirs, Napoleon’s buttons, Darwin’s century, E...