But now shrinks the place where you stand: Where now, stripped by shade, will you go? — Paul Celan

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  • My Father Would Have Been 87 Today

    My father would have been 87 today. Even in illness, after suffering a stroke and eventual dementia, he was intellectually curious. The day after he suffered his first major…

    Sister

    Having adopted three cats while I lived there, I spent considerable time in the busy waiting room of an animal hospital in the town of Waco,…

    Nightmasks and Other Poems

    Nightmasks In dreamdarknessI come upon a nightEndless and vast Lit up by the moonlampcasting lightshadowson familiar faces — revealing theirnightmasks Wingseeds Dried wingseeds fall onThis alien…

    Platero

    Love and Time

    More time is not more eternity. — Juan Ramón Jiménez What if someone or something exists only for a very short interval of time? Would you…