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Poem for July, 2023

Tool Talk  

Pu tip of pot through loop. Pull tight.
Call this position B. File flash and sand
Use adze to strike off wobbly-pump
of Handley Page or Spad. Dry roller stocks,
make notch in carrick bits with extra pick
and fit in spindle bush. Dash for the churn,
dash for the peak. Lakes equal paddles, bridles
are for camels, skies, a harness punch will fix
my son's new watch or fill that ladle in the stable.
Fit pitching chisel into. granite crotch: release.
If cannon diagram does not apply, destroy.
Let sun god slide through threading lathe. Tie
lightning rod with thong. Work corks in slots of loom.
Rewind. Let sonnet slide from side to side.

.Previous Poems of the Month on one page.. .  
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Previous Poems of the Month on one page.

Poem for June, 2023
Tree Hymn

Poem for May, 2023
From The Light Show, in EARTHSHINE:

Poem for April, 2023
Moonlight Night

Poem for March, 2023
Sun Gate Pass

Poem for February, 2023
Phenomenenology for Dummies

Poem for October, 2022
The Moon-Globe

Poem for September, 2022
Notes from the Provinces

Poem for August, 2022
Midwestern Families

Poem from July, 2022
The Beautiful Names of the Months

Poem from June, 2022
At the White Window

Poem from May, 2022
Landscape with Bees

Poem from April, 2022
Black Labrador

Poem from March, 2022
Five Winter Halka by Basho

Poem from February, 2022
The Hour of Blue Snow

Poem from January, 2022
The House Was Quiet on a WinterAfternoon

Poem from December, 2021
Poem for Adlai Stevenson and Yellow Jackets

Poem fromr November, 2021
A Ghost, to One Alive

Poem from October, 2021
Yoshitoshi

Poem fromr September, 2021
The Dream of the Moving Statue

Poem fromr August, 2021
FourAbout Death

Poem from July, 2021
The Day Nabokov Died

Poem from June, 2021
Stan Smith and Vinio Rossi

Poem from May, 2021
Putting It Mildly

Poem from April, 2021
Earthrise

Poem from March, 2021
Two Poems by Li Shang-yin

Poem from February, 2021
Root Vegetable Ghazal

Poem from January, 2021
Chloe in Late January

Poem from December, 2020
Two Reneal Poems

Poem from November, 2020
Reading Yannis Ritso in November

Poem from October, 2020
The Moon-Globe

Poem from September, 2020
The Lowercase Alphabet

Poem from August, 2020
One Hundred Billion Neurons in My Brain

Poem from July, 2020
Hearing You Read

Poem from June, 2020
Landscape with Wolves

Poem from May, 2020
Will Tarzan Swing in Time

Poem from April, 2020
Easter Ghazal

Poem from March, 2020
Homage to William Carlos Williams

Poem from February, 2020
The Cutting Room Floor

Poem from January, 2020
Chloe in Late January

Poem from December, 2019
A Doctor's History

Poem from November, 2019
Two Views of the Cathedral

Poem from October, 2019
October's Stem and Head-Piece

Poem from Septembert, 2019
Basho

Poem from August, 2019
Watching My Grandson Play Mamillius in The Winter's Tale

Poem from July, 2019
After My Death

Poem from June, 2019
Vermont Summer: Three Snapshots, One Letter

Poem from May, 2019
Hamlet Ghazal

Poem from April, 2019
Jaywalker

Poem from March, 2019
Mesa Verde

Poem from February, 2019
Wishing the Gift of Narrative

Poem from January, 2019
Georgia

Poem from December, 2018
Thoughts of Chairman Mao

Poem from November, 2018
Pacing Around in the Memory Palace

Poem from October, 2018
October Couplets

Poem from September, 2018
Suite for Jean Follain

Poem from August, 2018
Vermont Summer: Three Snapshots, One Letter

Poem from July, 2018
July Morning Vision

Poem from June, 2018
I Wear My Father

Poem from May, 2018
Two Trips to Ireland

Poem from April, 2018
That Spring

Poem from March, 2018
"Other Forms Were Near": Five Words

Poem from February, 2018
The House Was Quiet on a Winter Afternoon

Poem from January, 2018
Defiitive

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Poem from December, 2017
Notes on the Poems

Poem from November, 2017
Late November:
The Wolves at the Cleveland Zoo

Poem from October, 2017
Six Ghosts

Poem from September, 2017
Section 9 of “The Light Show,” from “Poem in Three Parts,”
Earthshine,
1988.

Poem from August, 2017
Phenomenology for Dummies

Poem from July, 2017
Landscape with Disappearing Poet

Poem from June, 2017
"Broken Field Running"

Poem from May, 2017
The Fragrance of Orchids

Poem from April, 2017
"The Light Show" III, 2:

Poem from March, 2017
Dinner Time


Poem from February, 2017
The Bird Feeder

Poem from January, 2017
The Poem of the Cold

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Poem from December, 2016
December Fourth, 1974

Poem from November, 2016
My Father at Ninety-Four

Poem from October, 2016
October Couplets

Poem from September, 2016
From “The Light Show,” Poem in Three Parts, Earthshine (1988)

Poem from August, 2016
Chopping Garlic

Poem from July, 2016
An early poem, c. 1962 . . .
Landscape in Three Lights

Poem from June, 2016
A Ghost, to One Alive

Poem from May, 2016
Poem at Seventy

Poem from April, 2016
Swithin

Poem from March, 2016
Wind, Rain, Light

Poem from February, 2016
Small Muliple Elegy

Poem from January, 2016
Hymn to the eye from

Names of a Hare in English (1979)

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Poem from December, 2015
The Snow Bird

Poem from November, 2015
Reading Yannis Ritso in November

Poem from October, 2015
My Mother at Eighty-Eight

Poem from September, 2015
LEDA

Poem from August, 2015
“It’s a Whole World, the Body. A Whole World!”

Poem from July, 2015
Three Walks

Poem from June, 2015
One Who Came Back
. . . . . . . . . . . .
for Franz Wright

Poem from May, 2015
The Poem Against the Horizon

Poem from April, 2015
Walking Home on an Early Spring Evening

Poem from March, 2015
March 10, 2001

Poem from February, 2015
The Hour of Blue Snow

Poem from January, 2015
Lullaby for the Elderly

Poem from December, 2014
On Neglecting to Baptize a Child

Poem from November, 2014
The Light Collector

Poem from October, 2014
October's Stem and Head-Piece

Poem from September, 2014
August Notes

Poem from August, 2014
The Reapers

Poem from July, 2014
Three sections from Night Thoughts

Poem from June, 2014
How Music Began

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Poem from April, 2014
Landscape with Grief Train

Poem from March, 2014
The Secret Life of Light

Poem from February, 2014
Fang's Amazing Horse

Poem from January, 2014
Chloe in Late January

Alt text

Poem from December, 2013
Nineteen Sixty-three

Poems from November, 2013
Four About Metaphysics

Poems from October, 2013 and October, 2008
Autumn Ghazal

Poem from September, 2013
Two Villanelles

Poem from August, 2013
A Sonnet from the Sequence, "Cloudstown Lightfall"

Poem from July, 2013
Half of Life

Poem from June, 2013
Writing Poems After Dinner at The Zuo's

Poem from May, 2013
The Fool's Tale

Poem from April, 2013
In Heaven

Poem from March, 2013
Walking Around Retired in Ohio

Poem from February, 2013
Winter Remembered

Poem from January, 2013
After Fujiwara no Teika

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Poem from December, 2012
Black Labrador

Poem from November, 2012
Late November: The Wolves at the Cleveland Zoo

Poem from October, 2012
The Language Question

Poem from September, 2012
Occasional Sonnets

Poem from August, 2012
The Lemon

Poem from July, 2012
At the White Window

Poem from June, 2012
Old

Poem from May, 2012
In Exile

Poem from April, 2012
from Earthshine (1988)

Poem from March, 2012
Poem for Adlai Stevenson and Yellow Jackets

Poem from February, 2012
The House Was Quiet on a Winter Afternoon

Poem from January, 2012
Piano Practice
from Rainer Mria Rilke

Alt text

Poem from December, 2011
Six Ghosts

Poem from November, 2011
Leopardi: L'Infinito

Poem from October, 2011
Four by Bashio

Poem from September, 2011
My Little 9-11 Poem

Poem from August, 2011
Stevens Ghazal

Poem from July, 2011
Thunder in the Marsh

Poem from June, 2011
June 17, 2003

Poem from May, 2011
Sonnels to Orpheus (II, 25)

Poem from April, 2011
More Basho Translations

Poem from March, 2011
Mirror Ghazal

Poem from February, 2011
Pelee Island, Lake Erie

Poem from January, 2011
Five Winter Haiku by Basho

Alt text

Poem from December, 2010
In the Afternoon

Poem from November, 2010
Fall Day

Poem from October, 2010
Kitchen Ruckus

Poem from September, 2010
Visiting the Fengxian Monastery

Poem from August, 2010
David Young Meets the Ghost of Wallace Stevens
on an August Night in His Back Yard

Poem from July, 2010
A Painting of a Falcon

Poem from June, 2010
Thoughts of Chairman Mao

Poem from May, 2010
Henry Vaughan

Poem from April, 2010
The Light Show

Poem from March, 2010
Whichever Stone You Pick Up

Poem from February, 2010
'Water Diary'

Poem from January, 2010
January 3, 2003

Alt text

Poem from December, 2009
Basho

Poem from November, 2009
Oh Salmon-Colored Edsel, Run Us Down

Poem from October, 2009
Hearing You Read

Poem from September, 2009
A Country Postcard

Poem from August, 2009
Mother

Poem from July, 2009
The Day Nabokov Died

Poem from June, 2009
June 17, 2003

Poem from May, 2009
Kohoutek

Poem from April, 2009
Root Vegetable Ghazal

Poem from March, 2009
Poem for Wrists

Poem from February, 2009
Blake's 'Dante and Virgil Penetrating the Forest' (1824)

Poem from January, 2009
Skeleton

Alt text

Poem from December, 2008
December Fourth, 1974

Poem from November, 2008
A Ghost, to One Alive

Poem from October, 2008
Autumn Ghazal

Poem from September, 2008
The Portable Earth-Lamp

Poem from August, 2008
The Picture Says

Poem from July, 2008
July Morning Vision

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

Alt text

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 and October, 2014
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
"Four Songs on a Bone Flute"

Poem from May, 2007
Waking Home on an Early Spring Evening

Poem from April, 2007
Easter Ghazal

Poem from March, 2007
"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

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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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