Wisdom's Call

Wisdom's house is firmly built; her seven pillars raised. Her wine and bread on table spread--a feast a king would praise. And out she sends her servant-maids to call at twilight hour To those of foolish character to come nigh and devour The bread of learning, and be…

The Poetics of Space

The corner of the white-walled room is hung with stair-like stars. The inches squared where cobwebs dwell is where the cosmos are. The cosmos of the my white-walled mind are brimming with the light of forces, of creation-- imagining the night. The white-walled cosmos of the night my psyche bends…

To Wage a War

The war I wage with words is endless, beautiful and cursed. The ink, the letter, syllables--they express but they confine. Nevertheless I break the rules; nevertheless I am restrained. What then will be wrought? Will it be beauty, or remain Nothing more than words? postscript For day 2 of This…

Poetry is Sane

My head splits open, crammed full as it is With heaven I have squished in confined space. I am all logic, understanding this: That finite worlds are mine now to embrace. But come the muses, here to give me earth; To rescue me from living dissonance, And in the great…