Poems
Links:
Three of my pandemic poems appear on Indolent Books' What Rough Beast poem-a-day series on Oct. 9-11, 2020.
I interpret Wordsworth's "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge..."
For First Parish Church, Lexington
Click here (15 minutes, followed by Q&A).
The Crypt of the Capuchins
Image Journal, Issue 103 (includes audio)
Image Journal, Issue 103 (includes audio)
Exclusive in New York for Bergdorf Goodman
Nixes Mate Review, Issue 9
Compose Journal
Audio of Cammy Reading Robert Frost's "Design"
YouTube
Home Or Harm You Can Only Make One
Poets.org
“The Blues in My Heart, The Rhythm in My Soul”
Missouri Review
Concord Academy reading
“Hunting”
Poetry Society of America
“Ring"
Mass Poetry
Indolent Books
Transition Poem # 59: Poems in the Aftermath
Winter Bonnets
—after Rilke’s Fifth Duino Elegy
where are those holy wanderers
their healing herbs
their ornately flowing inscriptions
what crushed them
those fiercely blossoming roses
their gaping faces their thin surfaces
savagely wrung out
how can we live on without them
their bright red knowing
how quiet our still small griefs
in spring summer autumn
blindly creating
our usual fallen unripe fruits
why this heavy wind
suddenly this laborious nowhere
forever saved up forever hidden
how can we make them return
snug in their winter bonnets