shorter poems* (*shorter than 14 lines)   Vampires What Music Really Is October Immigrants September The Consensus on Wine Our Stuff At the Library Setting Out June Hayfield May [insects, Jupiter] Easter [the sounds of springtime] The Election Lies Your Paradise Campaign ’24 Allegory Quantum Foam The Devil [last day of spring] [multiflower rose] Stigmata [spring day, puff of wind] Rituals [snow falling gently] Well-Made Things Basilisk One Theory Good Steerage Unfinished Epilogue What We Wanted The Feast of All Souls As Prophesied Our Hero Indolence Two Tankas Sunday Mass Tanka for the Eve of Summer Gloria Marlboro May The Shirt Forgetting Beer Hall Putsch Heaven My Shadow Compulsion We Wanted It to End An Anchorite’s Catechism A Gentle Nudge Don’t Think Enlightenment A Good Puzzle On the Trail at Dusk I Dream a World Pedagogy The Butoh Dance The Don Bible Lesson Sing, Bluebird, Sing! Patagonia April 2020 In the Garden of Sharon Monarchs Used to It What Is It about Drums? The Endling Wisdom Adrift Walls Farang (Getting across Bangkok) Rose of Tralee Lament This Evening Raspberries Words Fail Shrinking Ruined Beauty Garden Prep Envy Owls It’s Come to This July 3 Aquinas Has Questions for Hakuin In the Art Bazaar Rescue He Thinks about His Ratings Alone in the Woods Our Haloes January Thaw Traces The Art of the Spiel Unpacking Dog Days They’re Mating Out There Graduation In the Dead Sea Whiteout Perfectly Good The Spoils of Jerusalem New England Autumn Suite Air Conditioning Position Available She Rows Hindsight Ugly Girls Auld Lang Syne Accidents A Toast The Waiting Room July 8 Why there are so few really good poems about acid Weather Beachcombers Contact Traffic Stop At Sea My Phone Midwinter Rain Family Shooting Star Grief The Vineyard Nantucket Crows Weird Upon Learning of a Book Called The View from Hinsdale Bridge Biopsy CAT Scan Landscape Astrology Laguna Honda The Dash Between Summer Job ars poetica The Brace murder a blessing for Maia Thulé potted plants fences Vie for the Pie! to my actor pal surefire submission to the editors of poetry Sunkist to my cabbie pal   sonnets      longer poems e-mail to Mike      Fox Paws home page