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July Morning Vision

Did nobody else at the funeral see
The great whips cracking in the air
The sweat flying off in droplets
The droplets shining like dew?

My birds, I want to speak to you today
About your other lives as galley slaves.
Your singing, in case you didn’t know it,
Comes from the chants you made, working together.

When a galley slave dies and becomes a bird,
The whips trill, the long boats roll and wallow,
We ship our oars and listen, listen, listen.
On the horizon, lightning lashes the sea.

from At The White Window (2000)



All the previous poems of the month on one page.




Poem from June, 2008
Four About Death

Poem from May, 2008
Bonuses

Poem from April, 2008
The Self: A Sonnet Sequence

Poem from March, 2008
A Lowercase Alphabet

Poem from February, 2008
Chopping Garlic

Poem from January, 2008
A Calendar: The Beautiful Names of the Months

Poem from December, 2007:
The Poem of the Cold

Poem from November, 2007:
At the Back of the Year in a High Wind

Poem from October, 2007:
October's Stem and Head-Piece

Poem from September, 2007
Poem About Hopping

Poem from August, 2007:
Putting My Father's Ashes in the Cemetary at Springville Iowa

Poem from July, 2007:
Vermont Summer: Three Snapshots, One Letter

Poem from June, 2007:
from "Four Songs on a Bone Flute"

Poem from May, 2007:
Walking Home on an Early Spring Evening

Poem from April, 2007:
Easter Ghazal

Poem from March, 2007:
from "Water Diary" (Boxcars, 1973)

Poem from February, 2007:
Section 10 of “Dancing in the Dark,”
from “Poem in Three Parts,” Earthshine

Poem from January, 2007:
Two New Year's Poems by DU FU

Poem from December, 2006:
Christmas: Ohio and Capolongo

Poem from November, 2006:
Three Time-Trips

Poem from October, 2006:
October Couplets

Poem from September, 2006:
Mesa Verde



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