Abbie's
Poems
Here are
35 of Abbie's poems. I've collected them from notebooks and
scattered papers she leaves here and there. I've arranged them in
groups according to the one's l like most, though in no particular
order. Some readers might have different preferences.
Many of the poems express Abbie's love for the Southwestern part of the
USA where she grew up and where we live in the summers. At some
point, I will probably create links to albums of Abbie's photos that are
related to the poems. Some, like
"Ginevra" and "Zion, my home" are prose-poems. I
keep finding poems and will add them to this site from time to time.
Recent
Additions
Death is a wind
that will carry you off
Selected
Poems
Parking
Mimi
Driving
down 68 today the old van rose up
My
Old School
Eye
Poem
Ginevra
Parking
Lot Knowledge
In
Winter Dog Time
In
God's eyes
Taos
Mountain Love Song
The
Chores of Eternity
Elaine
I
Will Wait
Waking
In Vallecitos
I
Am A Spring
Some
other poems I like
“Mordechai
the light, the bankbook…
I
loll in time, bask in piles of minutes
Jornada
del Muerte
The
Writer
Street
Performer
The
Echoes of
Zion
The
Two Pillars of the World
Haiku
Zion,
my home
Poems
for Aletheia
The poems
for Aletheia were written as part of the text of our newest music
theater work. Some were strongly altered in the libretto, and some
were not used. These are mostly the original versions. They
are to be understood as fragments of a larger whole. We have
recorded some of the songs, and some include videos. I've put links
to the recordings on the pages of those poems which are indicated with an
asterisk.
*Breeze
blow fool of my soul
*Follow
me my light
*Into
the splashless pool of silent losses
*Time
to inhale the fetid air and sing
*Was
that you beneath my ear
From
my window I see the lanterns are lit
air,
black, blackest air
Like
putty I use certain words on my face
As
I behold the urbane carcass
Deep
in water a gash-toothed shark
Neither
Rose Garden Kisses or Scarlet
Natural
Mysteries
The
Truth Singer