Category Archives: Poems

Poems.

“Anchorage Oil Town Villanelle” published in Cirque

Cirque is a literary journal for the North Pacific Rim edited by Anchorage poet Mike Burwell. My poem "Anchorage Oil Town Villanelle" is published in the Summer Solstice 2010 issue, which came out yesterday.
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Metsän henki

"She stands outside & in me, / a flicker beckoning / at the inmost limit of vision / where the blind spot is insufficiency / of self-knowing." A poem in celebration of National Poetry Month.
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Mass Extinctions

'A rip in the sky, a roar: / impact of a meteor -- / shroud of iridium dust / on the dusk of Dinosaur.' Two dinosaur poems in celebration of National Poetry Month.
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Stone Poem

'We rocks, we trees will give rise to new words / when you are gone to dust and scattered shards.' In celebration of National Poetry Month.
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The Mountain

Spine of the land thrust up / by the grinding of continents, you signify / the might of the planet. You glow like a lamp in the arctic summer. / Even in winter night do you shine. / You are never dark.' In celebration of National Poetry Month.
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Alaska Love Poem

In 1984, during my troubled early twenties, I fell in love with a friend of mine. This poem was written to her. But it's especially a poem about how I came to love myself, & to give up my former self-hatred.
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Dream of Flight

Ravens, & a poet, at play.
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Snowfall

New snow this morning, & a poem to go with it.
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Job 42.13

A poem based upon a verse in the Book of Job, with an account by a Kansas farmer who saw the inside of a tornado in 1928.
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Step

A poem.
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