Formal Verse – as iron day fades into glowing night

How the Bridge is Made

The engineers who ruled a younger age
Had visions of a bridge of peerless span;
They set their grand designs upon the page
And called their work the greatest work of man.

You’re It

The melody of love rings sweet and true:
in beats of eight we count the music out.

to my waters in winter

the glinting flow of autumn’s tea-dark deep
has given way to winter’s snowy white:
beneath the ice the waters softly sleep

to my city at midsummer

the sweet hot air of summer softly sighs
and gentles with the evening’s fading light;
the city stretches out beneath the skies

Two Elegiac Couplets

Stars all are born in a fire and a conflagration: so with us.
Your hands ache upon me.

On Light

The fire seems a paltry, trembling light 
Held next to you: for you are making light.

Sonnet for Eivin

I loved thee in another kind of life 
that time had seemed to scatter and erase: 
the pain, the joys, the sorrows, and the strife 

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