Let fall the tear of time

Here’s a poem of mine from about ten years ago: Sonnet on a Line from Dylan Thomas Let fall the tear of time, the sleeper’s eye will tear the dreams of dramas unrehearsed; will twitch upon the inward eye of verse that everyone’s forgotten but the rhyme. The sleeper’s retina records the scene of tears

The small nouns crying faith

I love this poem by George Oppen: Psalm BY GEORGE OPPEN Veritas sequitur … In the small beauty of the forest The wild deer bedding down— That they are there!                               Their eyes Effortless, the soft lips Nuzzle and the alien small teeth Tear at the grass                               The roots of it Dangle from their