Omniscience
I’ve been doing more reflecting than reading of late so have no poem to share today. However, I have been …
Author Archives: Marie Taylor
Great Aso
Horses are standing in rain. A herd of horses with one or two foals is sanding in rain. In hushed …
Balance
Balance Balance is everything, is the only way to hold on. I’ve weighed the alternatives, the hold as harbor: It …
Remainder of a Life
If I were told: By evening you will die, so what will you do until then? I would look at …
Angina Pectoris
If half my heart is here, half of it is in China, doctor, in the army streaming toward the Yellow …
A Small Green Island
A small green island where one white cow lives alone, a meadow of an island. The cow grazes till …
What I said to the Wanting Creature
I said to the wanting-creature inside me: What is this river you want to cross? There are no travelers on …
Sorrow, it is not True
Sorrow, it is not true that I know you, you are the nostalgia for a good life, and the aloneness …
To Aphrodite of the Flower, at Knossos
Leave Crete and come to this holy temple where the pleasant grove of apple trees circles an altar smoking with …
The Soul, Like the Moon
The soul, like the moon, is new, and always new again. And I have seen the ocean continuously creating. …
Remembering the Sacred Self 