Rainy blue dawn: poems

Much of this selection of poems is new: only two pieces, in fact, date from before 2004. You can read them straight through, or just select the ones you like.

Part One: ad matutinum

These pieces I offer to the morning; may they be pleasing.

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After a visit to a friend: two poems

Bat

“You were born for the waltz”

Hawk, in North Carolina

“Most of us still walk in night”

Fossil exhibition

Vole

Outside an art gallery

Diptych

Rooftop

Blessing

Sunday morning

Sonnet

Red sky in the morning

Refugee song

Scene

As we take one last photograph together

From “A day in haiku”

Night ride home

That girl

Part Two: changes and chances

Equinox

After the rain

Letter to York

Three poems for the end of spring

Koi

To the fallen

Moths at War Memorial after midnight

The other side of darkness

East Coast canal

To Sappho

After Sappho

Ghazal of morning

Eos

Fox

Malagueña

I have never loved you more

In place of a love poem

Teachers' Day

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