[a train journey read among many train journeys]


II
At night make me one with the darkness.
In the morning make me one with the night

V
Don’t own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your
house catch fire

XII
Let me wake in the night
and hear it raining
and go back to sleep



…surprised by nightfall to be weary

the bodies of men, able in the heat
and sweat and weight and length
of the day’s work, eager in their spending,
attending to nightfall, the bodies of women

sleep after love, dreaming
white lilies blooming
cooly out of the flesh

… fox tracks in snow, the impact
of lightness upon lightness
unendingly silent



…Go with your love to the fields.
Lie easy in the shade. Swear allegiance…


The First Amendment:
2.
To be sane in a mad time
is bad for the brain, worse
for the heart. The world
is a holy vision, had we clarity
to see it -- a clarity that men
depend on to make.


we take poisoned medicines to heal them of the poisons that they breathe, drink, and eat,
[I love an Oxford comma]


Come all ye conservatives and liberals
who want to conserve good things and be free,


...I know
a 'fetus' is a human child.
I loved my children from the time
they were conceived, having loved
their mother, who loved them
from the time they were conceived
and before...


By chance? Prove it, then, and I
by chance will kiss your ass.