Selected Poems from Noon Until Night
The Road Mothers with newborns in knotted slings, on their heads impossible towers of things, the old in carts, the children by the hand, these people crossing a cratered land are more than metaphor; but they are […]
Good Friday
He’s gone to find the animal who tells the story that destroys us; he wants to interview the angel with the teeth; unearth disfigured miniature intaglios: clay dolls of heroes, words burnt into buried stones, the molds for masks we memorized and wear for worship, somber and nodding and simpler than we […]
HORIZON: November 14, 2016
A giant copper moon flares on the lake in the early dark, and on the car radio, talk. Talk trying to chew despair. Talk about fear to hide fear. Talk about talk about talk. Fifty cents, a dollar a word. It is all just talk until it isn’t. A day may come soon […]
Winter Psalm
The snow storm today inspires me to post this poem again, from Emblem: WINTER PSALM Boston snowbound, Logan closed, snowplows and salt-trucks flashing yellow, drifts tall as a man some places, visibility poor, I sit by the window and watch the snow blow sideways north-northeast, hot cup in hand, robe over pajamas. You have […]
RICHARD HOFFMAN 