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- A dark evergreen shouldered with snow
- A tree sees itself
- As she walks, the wind blows
- Aspen Leaves in Stream
- Aspen Reflections
- At sun rise
- Be sparse
- Beyond rightness
- Blue Stone
- Brook Splashes
- Clouds curtain open
- Come deeper with me
- Dancing Yachts
- Do not care for the names of things
- Does God come only in glimpses
- Duck Draws
- Every Line
- Every Moment Shines
- Every word gets wrapped
- Everywhere Electric
- Floating in early morning denial
- Forks on Fire
- From far across the green hills
- Frost Revelation
- Frozen Hondo
- Furling
- Garden path
- Go With The Flow
- Happy Artist
- Home
- Homing
- How can each moment
- I am the love of emptiness
- I am the space
- I could say something
- I don't know any more
- I exist on the border
- I have nowhere to be.
- I look right through
- I who has no form
- I write to you, I speak to you, I am with you.
- I've been here forever
- Ice Ribs
- In a moment like this
- Inside a Waterfall
- Interspersed among the moments of your life
- It is a day of fundamentals
- It’s November
- Karma
- Life is a series of misleading loves
- Life is white clouds painted on a blue sky.
- Lovely
- Moon shadows on a cloudless night
- Mountain Stream
- My words are your words—
- One:
- Only a Fool Becomes Bored
- Ripples Sand
- Shadow man
- Silence hangs in the air
- Stop your frantic motion
- The clasp of strong hands, sweat of labor
- The Field
- The Market Opens
- The river holds me spellbound
- The rouge of morning fills me with wonder
- The steady snow
- The wind is a translation
- The world moves:
- This is surely the last warm day;
- This landscape is empty
- This valley overflows with Silence—
- Today
- Veins
- We are a curtain
- We are November butterflies
- What is this gentle breeze on my face
- When is Blue Sky Enough?
- Where is within?
- Where Once I was Empty, Now I am Full
- Will you dare to stand with me
- Would you
2000
2001
- A bell rings, blown in the wind
- All around us dances life
- Always we are moments away from drowning—
- Dead, but aware
- Despite my protests
- Do that which comes natural:
- Face of God
- From far across the green hills
- He came to us as a man selling air
- Heat
- How can I say it?
- Huang Po was right on
- I AM
- I who has no form
- I've read to you for a thousand years
- In Memory of Memories Lost—9/11/01
- In quiet moments
- In the night
- It is deadly play and beautiful agony
- It is scary, but in the End
- Listen for the sound of no wind
- My steps are not taken by me
- No movement, but still an "I"
- On a backdrop of Nothingness
- Pass your days and nights
- Stillness speaks words more eloquent than I
- The hawk's cry is swallowed in Silence.
- The rooster crows in mid-morning
- The seed floats in perfection
- The steady snow
- The Truth is not hazy
- The words will come
- The world is an illusion
- Unbreakable
- What is this screeching I hear?
- Where is the final observer?
- Where is within?
2002
- — will always wait for you
- A small child's voice
- A tree is more honest
- All your love is love of self
- An eye, filled with the stars it sees
- Approximation is a chancy game
- As I turn within
- As she walks, the wind blows
- At the edge of the world
- Be who you are
- Come deeper with me
- Do not care for the names of things
- Each piece of our self we save
- Ethereal fingers of the Absolute
- Every sound that takes us away
- Every thought of causing or changing
- Fadings
- For the first time
- God sees the fall of every sparrow
- How can still water roar?
- How much must I write
- I am complete
- I am the love of emptiness
- I am the only sound in the universe
- I ask nothing with words
- I look through the years
- I swim in emptiness
- I walk in perfection
- I watch my self
- I-ness lives forever
- If only sound did not occur
- Imagine you are a patient
- Incomprehensible contentment—
- It is fall
- It Is This Way
- Mosquito
- My life framed against the sky—
- My night is the night of forgetting
- My words are your words—
- Nature simplifies; it takes life
- Once again I travel down through the years
- Our life is like a stone bird
- Our lives pass like dreams in the morning—
- Sleep reveals us
- Slipping silently from my mind
- So many voices speak through me
- Sometimes I wonder, "Me of all people
- The last night
- The roar of your life
- The seed is not the source
- The sun parts the world
- The trouble is
- There I am
- There is nothing that is yours
- This fall, amidst the chasing of leaves
- Thoughts brushing together
- Today
- Today, the word is light—
- Tonight
- Tonight, I saw the phantoms of old men—
- Tread lightly upon this world
- We do not have dreams
- We hear truth in the words of our youth
- What are you trying to catch
- What drives us down and makes us dream
- What I Was and What I Am
- What is this silence
- What is this vast emptiness
- What Remains
- When I look for my heart
- Who among us is willing to step aside
- Who will remember our attempts
- Why do you keep calling?
- Will you dare to stand with me
- You are a god in the body of an ant
- Your life is like a tale
2003
- A child dreaming in the womb
- A cloudless sky
- A corn stubble paints the ground
- A cricket voice pierces my form
- A door closes
- A weight descends upon me
- All worn out
- Be sparse
- Bonsai is marriage
- Darkness reflects fears
- Dew life
- Endless space of your heart
- Everywhere I look upon human beings
- February 19, 1895
- Fight, pray, struggle, despair
- From a distance
- Here
- Home
- I am nothing but thankfulness
- I cannot wait to see
- I could say something
- I left me behind
- I left my self in a field
- I look without the veil of words
- I sit
- I slide out the window
- I walk with the finality of death
- I was never here
- Inside and outside mean nothing
- Join me
- Let me tie together:
- Let today be fresh from yesterday
- Life fades
- Light stabbing through blackness
- Look with attention
- Lovely
- My eye
- My hand is stopped—
- My hand of emptiness reaches without moving
- My hopes drift into what Is
- My logic is blinded by beauty
- No need for a life of my own
- Now, I hear
- Open your window
- Silence melts me
- Still, ebon pond
- The Absolute pervades eternity
- The answer tries to crawl into you
- The mood—
- The pause:
- The thin spider's web of life and time
- The usual part of me is missing
- These words are shed
- These words preserve nothing
- This black wall within my mind
- This place is not my design
- Time and life are rolled out before me
- Tonight
- Truth descends like a scythe
- Vision is reflection
- Wave-like
- We are a curtain
- We play at life
- What secrets does sleep hold?
- When you have everything
- Wind, remind me of my leaf-nature.
- Winter-dry stalks of grass
2004
- A lake reflecting trees
- A quiet morning by the water
- A river of words moves among us
- A simple gate of logs
- Beauty floats in this spring air
- Close your eyes
- Crow caws
- Dead trees don't sway in the breeze.
- Death relieves you of many dreams
- Does God come only in glimpses
- Every poem is a glimpse
- For Sergeant Walters
- He weaves a web
- Here are spaces from which we shy away:
- I am carved glass
- I am the minute
- I call to you with beauty
- I feel the cold wind
- I found this breeze
- I hear birds chatter
- I never remember Reality
- I won't be long.
- I've been here forever
- I've come Home.
- I've made a mess of the world.
- If I could speak
- Interspersed among the moments of your life
- Is it always like this
- It's quiet
- It's raining inside
- Leaves rattle:
- Look through the crowd
- Looking at your soft underbelly
- Lying here I see
- Me" is a hollow sound
- Mind-shine makes such motion
- My self is burning
- No words today
- Ocean's waves inside me
- On this day
- Once, this shell held life
- Rising water, falling leaves —
- Settling
- Sounds
- Tendrils of sleep
- The cock crows
- The First Words are Real
- The grasses speak to me of seasons—
- The light within
- There are layers
- These words are a prayer answered
- This valley overflows with Silence—
- Though it doesn't matter
- Thoughts dance in and out
- To touch another is heartache
- Today may be the fifth of January
- Truth is:
- Voices echo down
- Walk into this sunlit field
- We are holding hands
- What draws me to the lone tree
- What is this gentle breeze on my face
- What will you say to death?
- When the world is too bright
- Wind sweeps my mind of thoughts
- Words are cold this morning
- You follow me
2005
- A crow and a human voice
- A Sharp Wind
- A tree sees itself
- All words arise in mid feeling
- An outline of life
- At sun rise
- At the end of every word is another
- Breeze
- Clouds curtain open
- Dawn
- Death is turning to face
- Don't gather seed for the winter.
- Down the Rabbit Hole
- Even I imbue images with life
- Every word gets wrapped
- Face It
- First Day of Fall
- Happiness is a wide river
- Heaven is a Darkness that Deceives
- How can I exist?
- Hurley
- I am waves of rain
- I can't dream of summer
- I did not know
- I don't know any more
- I keep dragging a body
- I know who he was.
- I look right through
- In the highest expression
- It is a day of fundamentals
- January 13th
- Mother
- My certainty is a whisper to you
- My life opened in the darkness
- One again, the glass is empty.
- One word
- Our lives are gleaming castle walls
- Quiet Rooms
- Roaring
- Silence hangs in the air
- Slowly
- Somewhere deep inside
- Strike the Evening Chime at Noon
- That I don't care makes it magnificent
- The body said
- The Inner Light
- The Many Forms of Oceans
- The Name
- The river holds me spellbound
- The Truth is clean
- The wind rises from the valley
- These words are tired trying
- We are November butterflies
- What the hell are you doing
- Within you is a
- You can't go home like this
- You know who he was
- You make a list of things-to-do
2006
- A barred owl is deep in the woods
- A cloud empties itself
- A dark evergreen shouldered with snow
- A snake crawls curling his way
- A tired warrior may find a friend
- A white wisp
- Alone.... Taste the word.
- An interior pilgrimage:
- Break the mirror—
- Can you hear my silence
- Children play as the blue sky looks upon them—
- Despite the stillness that envelopes
- Each day all my works crumble into dust
- Each day we chatter
- Five birds flying in a rain-drenched sky
- Flight
- Hands turning, opening days and nights
- Her hair was spun of spider's web
- How can each moment
- How could the shape
- I am a husk
- I am becalmed again
- I am two things
- I gain strength from failing
- I see my face in the water
- I will clasp your hand
- I would not wait another day
- I'm spread across this field
- In the diffused, muslin light of dream
- It is a matter of mistakes:
- Jars of Glass
- Koan
- Last night—sleet
- One man comes home
- Pittsfield
- Put down the pen
- Raindrops on a window
- Soldiers
- Spanning
- Stillness speaks words more eloquent than I
- Stop your frantic motion
- The common man calls death
- The grasses tell me of time—
- The personal whirlwind:
- The rush and spring
- The world moves:
- There are no words for utter contentment
- There are those who say the earth is hollow
- There is a coat of warm fog over the landscape
- There is a cool breeze within the heat of day
- Waiting
- We rise up among dreams and darkness
- We—there is no longer "we
- What am I?
- When life in us and around us is so full
- Winter's wreckage lies strewn about the woods
- Would we see light without its shadow
- You awake into sleep
- You must will to find the truth
- Your presence is a scar
2007
- A pair of blackbirds perch facing one another
- A prairie warbler's song circles higher and higher.
- A waterfall slowly erodes its foundation -
- City Morning
- Fifteen seconds of silence
- Furling
- He's telling his grandchildren
- Six and a half billion human eyes
- Taken Home
- The queen anne’s lace died early this year
- The wind is a translation
- This word did not begin on a page
- Your Strength