Category Archives: poetry

The Lovers Encore

Posted on June 9, 2025 by J

After sharing the texts of One Week of Nights and Days, I realized that the story of The Lovers would lend it more meaning to most readers, and recalled that I had already told the story of that life-altering vision … Continue reading →

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One Week of Nights and Days

Posted on June 6, 2025 by J

I have spoken of kundalini–that is what runs through all this work. The following pieces are very special to me because of the circumstances that brought them. Pamela was a local midwife who had never had children. I first heard … Continue reading →

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Standing, Look to the End

Posted on June 6, 2025 by J

When I was a girl, Swinburne became my favorite poet because his sounds and rhythms were headlong, and because I sensed a powerful erotic mystery behind his words. He was a publicly professed atheist, but his poems were so pagan … Continue reading →

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Dewi Sant

Posted on March 2, 2020 by J

2 March 2020 David is the patron saint of Wales, land of my foremothers and fathers, direct ancestor of our artery of song. His name is not Daffydd, cymbricized from the Hebrew David; it is Dewi. Dewi Sant is the … Continue reading →

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Gr’Mere

Posted on June 13, 2018 by J

She’s the Biggest Mama, the one I only go to when things are serious. This is what happened when I petitioned her on behalf of a friend: 29 May 2018 29 Gr’Mere Will See You Through The mirror at the … Continue reading →

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As Love-Poet Seems to Be My Strongest Calling…

Posted on May 8, 2018 by J

…what can I do but build upon my most loving recent work? Syncope means fainting.  I have gone there too many times.  Everything physiological shuts down, if only for a few seconds.  It’s happened to me so often that I … Continue reading →

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Lost on the ride

Posted on May 4, 2018 by J

This was a Very good night: 20 February 2018 20 Lost on the Ride It’s a wet pillowcase ours will be, come the morning. A wet little hand leaves a wet little trail as it traces the side of your … Continue reading →

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Drowning, Pond and Pool

Posted on December 26, 2017 by J

25 December 2017 24 Down in the Drowning Pool Draw down through a pair of hands, the Moon down through the pouring rain that used to make us wait outside, but now it’s found its first-born’s brain, and deep within … Continue reading →

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Evergreen

Posted on December 26, 2017 by J

My Teacher Her Church Christmas Eve, This Year: 24 December 2017 23 How Green We Were and Are How green the veins of your very own valley, the one running downhill, your arms at your sides. Children bestride a dead … Continue reading →

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Separating Line

Posted on December 25, 2017 by J

Watch this space.  And in the meantime, listen: Separating Line  

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