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Just A Few Lines Today

January 31, 2018February 6, 2025

Northampton, Mass., 1984.  To a woman I left behind in New Hampshire.

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POEMS

There Is A Poem, Within (2015)
With video of my reading

In The Plainfield Forest (2020)
With video of my reading

Dear Ursus (2014)
With audio of my reading

The Language of Love (2019)

The Large Black Bear By The Housatonic  (2020)
With audio and video of my reading

It Doesn’t Matter (2020)
With audio and video of my reading

Hey, You (2021)

House by the Marsh (2017/2024)

In Two Voices/Of Two Minds (2022)

To D.B.T. March 3rd 1957 – August 21st 2021 (2021)

Winter Soliloquy, Seven Years Thereafter (August 2009-July 2016)
With audio of my reading

There Is Not Another Way Through This Forest (2014)
With video of my reading

The Lobotomy (2009-2020)
With audio of my reading

Another Thanksgiving (2018)
With audio of my reading

Highly Sensitive People Can Sometimes Think Like This (2017/2018)
With audio of my reading

Red-Tipped Fired Wild-Wings Of Wondering (1983/1988) (1983/1988)
With audio of my reading

This is America. (1978) (1978)
Audio only

What Does It Mean To Write (1981/2015/2017)
With audio of my reading

1978, Love Poem To Janet (1978)
With audio of my reading

The Blackened Tree (2013)
With finger painting and audio of my reading

The Lost Bird (1997)

House Of Ladybugs (2002)

Love Poem To My Dog (2003)
With audio of my reading

It's July 4th Again, The Day My Father Died (2017)
With audio of my reading

Bleeding Heart, Fringed – Dedicated to May Sarton (1990s)
With audio of my reading

The Horses Down The Road (2005)

Dog Death: Without (2011)

Old Feet (2009)

We Fall; In The Voice of Dylan Thomas (2008)

When (2008)

In The Voice of Edna Saint Vincent Millay (2008)

We Must Make Of Our Lives A Work Of Art, Revolving (1988/2014)
With audio of my reading

Ode To An Old Raccoon (2007)
With video of my reading

On Thin Ice (2012)

At The Doctor’s Office (1992)
With audio of my reading

A Poem A Day To Keep The Doctor Away (1979) (1979-1980)
With audio of my reading

Mother (2010)
With audio of my reading

Imagine If They Actually Paid Poets! (2007)

The Cat Poems, 1. Gone. My Shadow. Shy Skeptical Slow. Closet Cat. (1980)

The Cat Poems, 11. Gone. Revised (1980)

The Cat Poems, 111. Gone. (1980)

Gone, 1V. (1980)

The Cat Poems, V. Here I am Letting You Go De-Parted From Flesh And Bone Of Discord (1981)

To The Daughters I Never Had (2005)

The Night I Decided There Was No Soul (2007)
With audio and video of my reading

Bird Watching (1988)

Amazing The Significance (Keene New Hampshire, 1978) (1978)

The Onion Poem (1982)
With audio of my reading

May Flies: Another Conversation With Death (early 1990s)

The Eagle; Two Versions (2011)

Ashes Or Dust (2016)
With video of my reading

Shabbat Song. The Ancestors. (2006/2016)
With audio of my reading

On Concrete (1987-1988)

And Seeds Lie In Wait (1978)
With audio of my reading

Standing By A Stone Wall (2012)

Flying Above Eagle, Cape Rosier, Maine (2007)

Woof (2012)
Memoir

And I’ll Never Forget (1980)
Audio only

Trenton Bridge, Route 3 (2008)

Around Us Was A Sharp Bright 6:00 October Light (1981)
With audio of my reading

Enough Is Enough (2012)
Short Story

The Porch (2005)
With audio of my reading

Invocation (2016)

Prescription For (Jewish Girl) Craziness. (1983)
Audio only

Do I Dare Myself To Write This Poem? (1983)
With audio of my reading

What Does It Feel Like (2017)
Audio only

Just A Few Lines Today (1984)
Audio only

Great White Pine (1990/2019)

Witches (1981)
Audio only

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