Contemplating August

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- A -

A blank page frightens me:	After the Rains - Winter '98 collection
A desert is not enough word	Alexandra
A dirty beach -- here where I stand	Amsterdam (Travels with Dad - IX)
a faded dry sky	An encroachment of innocent sky
a few feet from the shore	an ocean, you said, is like sadness:
A flight of clouds for your thoughts, child	An old man paints the ocean
a flower's intensity	ancestry
a foundling, this / precocious female child	and all these people that i do not know
a gray sky: all day, overcast	and he thinks he would know her now:
a leafless tree swaying with borrowed buds	And I wanted to fall in love
a lifeguard laments the winter	and in her twenty-second year...she would conclude
a man, whose future abruptly	and someday in the quiet,
a morning: the freeway's thick stream	anonymous
a pebble of somber black,	approach
a process: a case of eventual hardening	Article
a shaker of salt, half empty,	Artifacts
a swallow's flight across pale blue sky	Artist
A visit to the Great Wall	At first light / he brings in wood
Abandon me here	Athena
abode	Athena, I really don't think I could love you
About the Author , About the site	Aurora, the one I've decided to want in my crisis,
abruptly	Autumn
admiring the lines...of your body at play	Autumn Crossing - 2007 collection
after a while, there is silence	awkwardness

- B -

Basho, Matsuo - Favorite Poets & Poetry	boats
Belmont Shore Morning	Bohrn, Jon - About the Author
Belmont Shore	bottles
bike tires / struggle with asphalt	bounding of Elements - 2005 collection
Bishop, Elizabeth - Favorite Poets & Poetry	Brooks, Ben III - abruptly
Berry, Rachel - Favorite Poets & Poetry	Brooks, Ben Jr. - An old man paints the ocean
Blues Café	Brooks, Stephanie - Tribute

- C -

café noir (black coffee)	come out and play, my newest friend
Carambique - 2001 collection	[contemplation - wings]
carmine	[contemplation - wings II]
Carol - Remembering Carol -- a collection - (1997-2000)	contemplation IV (Crow)
cat at your door	content
cat's cradle	continued
Catal - 2002 collection	Conversations #1 - [Social Event]
Cathedrals (Travels with Dad - VIII)	Conversations #2 - Thoughts in the carpool
"Caution - Children" is the ice cream van's declaration	Conversations #3 - element
century	Crossing Portugal's edge
child of rain,	cry for the hawk
cigar smoke's / curled contours	crystallization
clouds	cummings, e.e. - Favorite Poets & Poetry
Clouds, intervening - Fall '99 collection	currents
coerced	custody
collage

- D -

Dance Floor (Travels with Dad - V)	dewdrops touched / by the first shimmering fingers of light
Dawn, your promises of...all of those things	discipline
Day after day, my life will collect them --	discretion
Day done, it slips below the horizon	diversity
days of passage	domesticity
Delayen, Linda - Favorite Poets & Poetry	don't cry for the hawk, the sky's daughter,
departure	driving to work in the dawn --
Descartes on the lost art of change	dusk
Desert camping, California

- E -

Ed's Restaurant - 2 AM	encounter
edge	estrangement
Emerging / into the night	equinox

- F -

falcon	Favorite Poets & Poetry
Fall	Favorites from the Passage through August collections
Fall / Winter '97 collection - On the Water's Edge	Felis Domesticus
Fall '98 collection - Last Days of May	Firefly
	First Light
Fall '99 collection - Clouds, intervening	flying
Fall/Winter '00 collection - hands of bridges	Forgive this letter after thirty years
fall from the sky, breathless tumble	Fortifications (Travels with Dad - VII)
Farewell to the bottles!

- G -

game	Glass Panes - Spring '99 collection
Gardening	grays
geese migrating	Guiding the banks of two shores
ghosts	Gulf Coast, 1978
glass

- H -

Habitat	Huntington Beach I (overcast)
hands of bridges - Fall/Winter '00 collection	Huntington Beach II (clutter)
Haunting	Huntington Beach IV (overcast)
Having tried to imagine	Huntington Beach V (Late Fall)
He places / a foot upon the path	Huntington Beach VI (seagull)
Here on our pier in the evening,	Hwy 87 outside Scottsdale, AZ
How far is as you fly

- I -

I'm marking time on the pavement	I'm sorry to see, Mr. Loon that you are here all alone
I am a house unhaunted no longer will you	I'm wearing / my summer skin
I am fond of you, in a way...light gleaming	In a house / looking down
I can see / the snowcover / of thin possibility	In a little while...your tears will dry
I can't recall which / town it was	in flight
I carried / Tennyson's words	in flight, where high above the earth
I could not live / in a country this small	in passing
I could see / in the afterglow of dusk	in passing (second time)
I could wander the afternoon / away	In the days of the strong
I fear the mischief in her blue-eyed kitten-smile	in the embrace of a cold misty sky
I don't want the strength	In the midst of the surf's roar in patient retreat
I found your footsteps in the sand	in the park
I had not paid attention	In the Volksgarten (Public Gardens), Vienna (Travels with Dad - II)
I have found my new-found fascination with the ledge	In the years that passed / since I fell to earth
i have no game..i play the games that others	in the stage's half-dark silence,
I have questioned / the loyalty / of rivers in winter	in this world, i think
I have taken refuge / in the resolution of conflict	instinct
I imagined myself forgiven	Intricate ceiling patterns
I joined / the Memorial Day caravan	Introduced, I imagined her
I know you, you devour attention	interlude
I often wondered / if she felt	Intricate, spiral-coiled weave of sharp edges
I recall that intensity / of the wind-blown	Is there enough time...for the things we each dream as we hurry?
I said goodbye / to Beale Street	It pulls my thoughts home
I watched / the winter light die from the bridge	It's been a while / since we'd been here
I would miss / this benign rush of nature	It's easy to ponder the science
Icarus, later	It's only now a short time
Ike flies to Geneva, 1953	I've gotten used to one-sidedness
illumination	I've slowly, I thought, gotten used to the rain
i'm in the mood for the summer again

- J -

japanese restaurant	Journey West
Jarrell, Randall - Favorite Poets & Poetry	just being there is enough sometimes:
Joshua Tree National Park	Justice, Donald - Favorite Poets & Poetry

- K -

Kantele / speaks for me

Kites seek the wind here,

- L -

L.A. Harbor	ledges
L.A. in the rain --	Left of the Afternoon - 2006-07 collection
L.A. rain	Lemon Passage
Lands - 2008 collection	lemons
Lands	Let me enjoy this late-summer day of my heart
Lanier, Sidney - Favorite Poets & Poetry	light emerging
Last Days of May	lines
Last Days of May -- Fall '98 collection	lines of our lives converging, diverging
Last light	Links page
last summer's leaves, the discards	Lions
late August	Long Beach decides it's now Winter
lately, the silence - Winter '99 collection	Long Beach Autumn
leaves	Long Beach still-life
leaves dangling --	Long Beach Winter
Leaves, settling	Long, Heather - readings , Favorite Poets & Poetry
leaving Capistrano	Lorelei recalled

- M -

Mais, Michele - sunsets, singer, Summer '98 collection	migrating
mass	miscommuniation
Matt's Manifesto	moment
Meeting, we'd tell our stories	Moore, Marianne - Favorite Poets & Poetry
Medi(t)ation	movement
melancholy	Moving (Tao of)
Memorial Day - Sequoia	muse
Memphis Zoo: White Tigers	my cat wants me to come out and play:
Messenger, of a change in inherent skies	my poet is lost in her thoughts again
Miami Beach evening	My sleep -- safe
Mid-life Pastoral

- N -

Not enough study / has been done

- O -

oblong and plump, they flaunt their perfection	Of precise / diamond cut
Oceanside II (Colors)	oh, to dream of floating again
Oceanside III (falling)	Ohio
Oceanside V (Leann)	On Osaka mornings
Oceanside VII (Vanessa)	On silent midnight sea
Oceanside VIII (Jellyfish)	On the Airplane (Travels with Dad - I)
Oceanside IX (To a dead loon)	On the stark platform
Oceanside X (Footsteps)	On the Water's Edge - Fall / Winter '97 collection
ocelot	oracle
Ode to the muse	outfall
of experience

- P -

Page, P.K. - Favorite Poets & Poetry	Pervasive Transport -- Spring '00 collection
parting	persistence
~~Pirates~~ Parrots of 2nd Street - 2003 collection	Platform #2
passage	Plath, Sylvia - Favorite Poets & Poetry
Passage through August - home page , about the site	Pound, Ezra - Favorite Poets & Poetry
Passion took the bus	predator
past perfect	Punctuate / your dark dance
portent	Pruning the rosebush

- Q -

quick flash of brown...skims above the ground

- R -

rain revisited	Remembering Carol -- a collection
raising our eyes for a toast	remembering carol
rampart	remembrances
rampart -- a special collection Spring / Summer '99	respite
Randall, Dudley - Favorite Poets & Poetry	Return
readings	Returning to the water
Realization	Revel in winds' words / child of the elements
reception	right now, i stand, my feet firmly
Reed, Henry - Favorite Poets & Poetry	Roads
reflecting	rock ponderings
refraction	Rose Garden (Travels with Dad - VI)
Regrets

- S -

Sakura	Shoreside (Travels with Dad - IV)
Santa Monica Mountains	Short Poems (2006-07)
Santa Monica Pier	shoulder
Saskatchewan	Signs in the language of traffic - Summer '00 collection
Scrap everything! Frustration flares,	simile
seagull	singer
search	Sitting Bull's gone,
Seascape	skaters
seasons	Skaters on thin ice
Seattle before the rush hour	Sketchbook - Spring '98 collection
Serene siren, my fellow traveler	so I've thought every time just who are you --
Serengeti	so now what? she turns and faces
Settling affairs of the heart	so secretly vulnerable, you child,
Sexton, Anne - Favorite Poets & Poetry	Social Event
shores, revisited	Sojourn
She builds walls	"soon", I would say
she counts recollections	spaces
She drapes courage / across her shoulder	sparrow
She gathers us then	specialization
she goes with ghosts again	Spring '98 collection - Sketchbook
She holds me gently / in conversation	Spring '99 collection - Glass Panes
she is...so intense in her fear,	Spring '00 collection - Pervasive Transport
she lays me down gently, her ragdoll	sprouting
she never wonders what happened to him	Stages
she paints / sunsets with words	stoics
she placed her dreams / in my hand	Standing alone by the ocean at twilight I watched
She prefers / the safe walls of homes	[still life with cups and plates]
She regards her life's colors -	Stones' lengthy silence
she reminds of black coffee:	strangers
she soars like a hawk, dangerously circling	study in progeny
she sows contemplation	Summer '98 collection - Under a Sky
she stands, resolute	Summer '99 collection - Vacancies
she turns her back, a signal to me	Summer '00 collection - Signs in the language of traffic
She was like / Joni Mitchell	Summer evening
she wears her melancholy well	summer shore
She's the goddess on the terrace overlooking the beach	Sunday
She's the soft sultry kitten Romping at play on the beach	Sunset Beach
Ships Passing	sunsets
shores

- T -

2001 Collection - Carambique	They possess it completely,
2002 Collection - Catal	They traveled their alleys of circumstance
2003 Collection - ~~Pirates~~ Parrots of 2nd Street	third date
2004 Collection - 3 Rivers	this buried effort, a seed
2005 Collection - bounding of Elements	This business of poetry writing: It really begins to disgust me, Lord Byron
2006-07 Collection - Left of the Afternoon	this child on the jetties,
2007 Collection - Autumn Crossing	this dance that we're dancing
Tabled bareness' remnant scents	this day goes slowly
Tacking the Lemon Passage again	this fear of flying: all this effort involved in leaving the ground
taking my place by the river,	This is not / a point along the way
TALGO	this miscommunication: missed communications,
tempered	This one-way flight / never regained
Tennyson, Alfred - Favorite Poets & Poetry	This public place
The art of letting go...is learned slowly	thought for Thursday
The band wears Bavarian hats	threads
The churches / are never the same here, only us	3 Rivers - 2004 collection
The Constellation's a proud bird	throw yourself / to the sky
The conversational currents / are fluid boundaries	to a blade
the currents flow different directions,	to a coil of razor-wire
The dots of destinations	To look at the face of a road:
The Horrible Girl	To look in / the face of the lioness
The Last Session, a new musical	To meet Janet Buck
The moth's aimless flight	To my daughter at 21
The Renaissance men are aging now,	to the encountered
The reassurance / of arroyo trails	Today, I thought / that things
the rocks will just sit there	Today, the clouds are timid,
The sheep don't bother me too much	Tomorrow's Thursday again,
The sun doesn't venture	Traveling north / along the coast in her car
the writer, a cynic	Travels with Dad series - 2007
There isn't much here for me any more	Travels with Jane
These are the last days of May	tree still-life
these children that play in the sand	Tribute
These, our equilibrium days	trying to wing her way back
They faced absolution / in the friction	Twisted cactus, I fear those thorns
They fear their own flight	two shores, apart...a river joins them together
They look almost perfectly normal

- U -

Understand the language of Fall approaching	Under a Sky - Summer '98 collection
Under a Sky	upon the water's edge i fear to turn
Under a sky there is only today --

- V -

Vacancies - Summer '99 collection	version
Vanilla Tigers - bored panting	Vienna, December 1999
Vasco Da Gama's Resolve (1522)

- W -

wait	When she was living
waiting	who really knows you mysterious stranger next door
Waiting for the dawn's / early rain echoes	Williams, William Carlos - Favorite Poets & Poetry
waiting...for the waiting to end	wing
waking each morning / she feeds the cat	Winter '98 Collection - After the Rains
walls	Winter '99 Collection - lately, the silence
water's edge	word games
when I once was -

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- Y -

Yballe, Raechelle - Favorite Poets & Poetry	you said, chasing sunsets will blind you
Yet	You, that old man who paints upon the seashore
Yo, Muse! Pull up a stool as I whine and complain	You welcome strangers to hallways
You can't / said my sister / bound buildings / like Superman	You're bound to have heard of the Horrible Girl --
You haunt me...thief of my thoughts	your crowd with their casual sense
You make this look easy...soaring on nothing

- Z -