Poem from December, 2015
The Snow Bird
Poem from November, 2015
Reading Yannis Ritso in November
Poem from October, 2015
My Mother at Eighty-Eight
Poem from September, 2015
LEDA
Poem from August, 2015
“It’s a Whole World, the Body. A Whole World!”
Poem from July, 2015
Three Walks
Poem from June, 2015
One Who Came Back
. . . . . . . . . . . .for Franz Wright
Poem from May, 2015
The Poem Against the Horizon
Poem from April, 2015
Walking Home on an Early Spring Evening
Poem from March, 2015
March 10, 2001
Poem from February, 2015
The Hour of Blue Snow
Poem from January, 2015
Lullaby for the Elderly
Poem from December, 2014
On Neglecting to Baptize a Child
Poem from November, 2014
The Light Collector
Poem from October, 2014
October's Stem and Head-Piece
Poem from September, 2014
August Notes
Poem from August, 2014
The Reapers
Poem from July, 2014
Three sections from Night Thoughts
Poem from June, 2014
How Music Began
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Poem from April, 2014
Landscape with Grief Train
Poem from March, 2014
The Secret Life of Light
Poem from February, 2014
Fang's Amazing Horse
Poem from January, 2014
Chloe in Late January
Poem from December, 2013
Nineteen Sixty-three
Poems from November, 2013
Four About Metaphysics
Poems from October, 2013 and October, 2008
Autumn Ghazal
Poem from September, 2013
Two Villanelles
Poem from August, 2013
A Sonnet from the Sequence, "Cloudstown Lightfall"
Poem from July, 2013
Half of Life
Poem from June, 2013
Writing Poems After Dinner at The Zuo's
Poem from May, 2013
The Fool's Tale
Poem from April, 2013
In Heaven
Poem from March, 2013
Walking Around Retired in Ohio
Poem from February, 2013
Winter Remembered
Poem from January, 2013
After Fujiwara no Teika
Poem from December, 2012
Black Labrador
Poem from November, 2012
Late November: The Wolves at the Cleveland Zoo
Poem from October, 2012
The Language Question
Poem from September, 2012
Occasional Sonnets
Poem from August, 2012
The Lemon
Poem from July, 2012
At the White Window
Poem from June, 2012
Old
Poem from May, 2012
In Exile
Poem from April, 2012
from Earthshine (1988)
Poem from March, 2012
Poem for Adlai Stevenson and Yellow Jackets
Poem from February, 2012
The House Was Quiet on a Winter Afternoon
Poem from January, 2012
Piano Practice
from Rainer Mria Rilke
Poem from December, 2011
Six Ghosts
Poem from November, 2011
Leopardi: L'Infinito
Poem from October, 2011
Four by Bashio
Poem from September, 2011
My Little 9-11 Poem
Poem from August, 2011
Stevens Ghazal
Poem from July, 2011
Thunder in the Marsh
Poem from June, 2011
June 17, 2003
Poem from May, 2011
Sonnels to Orpheus (II, 25)
Poem from April, 2011
More Basho Translations
Poem from March, 2011
Mirror Ghazal
Poem from February, 2011
Pelee Island, Lake Erie
Poem from January, 2011
Five Winter Haiku by Basho
Poem from December, 2010
In the Afternoon
Poem from November, 2010
Fall Day
Poem from October, 2010
Kitchen Ruckus
Poem from September, 2010
Visiting the Fengxian Monastery
Poem from August, 2010
David Young Meets the Ghost of Wallace Stevens
on an August Night in His Back Yard
Poem from July, 2010
A Painting of a Falcon
Poem from June, 2010
Thoughts of Chairman Mao
Poem from May, 2010
Henry Vaughan
Poem from April, 2010
The Light Show
Poem from March, 2010
Whichever Stone You Pick Up
Poem from February, 2010
'Water Diary'
Poem from January, 2010
January 3, 2003
Poem from December, 2009
Basho
Poem from November, 2009
Oh Salmon-Colored Edsel, Run Us Down
Poem from October, 2009
Hearing You Read
Poem from September, 2009
A Country Postcard
Poem from August, 2009
Mother
Poem from July, 2009
The Day Nabokov Died
Poem from June, 2009
June 17, 2003
Poem from May, 2009
Kohoutek
Poem from April, 2009
Root Vegetable Ghazal
Poem from March, 2009
Poem for Wrists
Poem from February, 2009
Blake's 'Dante and Virgil Penetrating the Forest' (1824)