Sometimes you sense how faithfully your life is delivered, even though you can't read the address.

There are mornings when everything brims with promise, even my empty cup.

The poem is the device through which the ordinary world is seen in a new way - engaging, compelling, even beautiful.

All night, this soft rain from The distant past. No wonder I sometimes Waken as a child.

This evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of the darkness.

It may very well be that people in San Francisco don't think we have any culture in Nebraska, but we have a different culture, and it's a very deep culture. We have these Czech immigrants, who are making this marvelous ethnic food and their Catholic lives and it's very fascinating stuff.

a happy birthday this evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of the darkness. I could easily have switched on a lamp, but I wanted to ride the day down into night, to sit alone, and smooth the unreadable page with the pale gray ghost of my hand