Verse Escape

      Wolves, © Andrew Wyeth       Mask Of Aphrodite   "There is no cure for love other than marriage."  ~Irish proverb      Love...

            Goat's Delight       The yellowed moon hangs low, a pendant swung from night's cold neck, blind platinum stare bent blin...

              Today (a 55)     Today is an old day, leaking the passed night's rain,   almost with its dawn already yesterday, faded rep...

               Tiger In The Abstract  ( a 55)     "Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."...

            Parabola    I've clerked all my life  in the Ministry of the Moon, a fixed point on her long ellipse, recording her perigees...

          The Sway (A Love Poem}     So many years I dripped your jade-clear love, my absinthe on a melting sugar dream. I knew the greenest...

            Canned Tulips       There was deep night asleep behind your eyes black as the moon's turned face that lives cold and dead be...

                Ballad Of The Earwig (a 55)   He was the earwig come up through the drain, she the rosebud ruined in rain,   she the actress...