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My “Poem of the Moment” is the title poem of my most recent book (which actually wasn’t all that recent.) Tenderness is a word that shows up in several of my poems, a word I’m always drawn to. Don’t we need more tenderness in the world?

Readings and Writings

This is a link to a reading I did for the First and Last Word poetry series with two terrific co-readers, Neil Silberblatt and Elizabeth S. Wolf.

Back when we weren’t going anywhere I did a reading for the Stockbridge (Massachusetts) Public Library . Here’s the link.

 

Poem of the moment

This Next Tenderness

The way he does it is
when the soap melts down to a sliver, he
pancakes it to the new bar–good and good,
more and more, like and like. And the way

she does it is
she drops the thin scrap onto the shower drain
to wash away, takes a fresh cake from the drawer,
weighs the heft and smoothness in her hand. That too,

she calls it cake, he calls it bar–vanilla/chocolate,
no right, no wrong, only an unhurried drift
as the passion to merge transforms into
a sanctity of differences, not black/white but

softer, maybe blue/green or shades of taupe
with borders opened out, enfolding both
builder of cairn and discarder of shard, marking
sacred ground for savoring of this, of that.

Books

Afterwords
$12.00
Read more about Afterwords here.

Container Gardening
$20.00
Read more about Container Gardening here.

Brightness Falls
$20.00
Read more about Brightness Falls here.

This Next Tenderness
$20.00
Read more about This Next Tenderness here.

 

Quote of the moment

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
—Martin Luther King

 

 

My photo on the home page is by James Dalsimer. The book trailer video is by A. Dalsimer. The cover of Afterwords was designed by Kate Misail and the cover painting is by Eric Sealine. The cover art on the other books is by Faith Hochberg (Container Gardening), Lora Brody (Brightness Falls), and Laura Fischman (This Next Tenderness).