Four Poems

Four Poems

HELOISE TO ABELARD IN THE VESTRY   (May 19, 1115)  “And if the name of wife appears more sacred and more valid, sweeter to me is ever the word friend, or, if you be not ashamed, concubine or whore.” Heloise Read your planctus, brother, so I can log it in my...
From “After Talk”

From “After Talk”

    28 There, on the backs of the leaves in a breeze beneath the sky lay the answer I had been searching for without knowing it until I saw it as a color instead of a word: silver, silver, silver. 29 You touched my chest with your fingertips as I lay next to...