Category: poems

One Train May Hide Another

(sign at a railroad crossing in Kenya) In a poem, one line may hide another line, As at a crossing,

As Robert Frost wrote, a poem “begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a

Where the house is cold and empty and the garden’s overgrown, They are there. Where the letters lie unopened by

Why did you leave me? We had grown tired together. Don’t you remember? We’d grown tired together, were going through

The odds of existence of being precisely who you are are slim In fact, the odds are almost zero but