A poem, like a translation per Mallarmé, is never finished, just abandoned. But there are degrees of unfinishedness, a quality the fatal press of time is on the side of. Here is a list of links to the twenty-four poems I “abandoned” in 2015, finishing them more than they could have been finished twenty or even ten years ago when there was more time left to go back to scavenge and pick bones, to rewrite and polish.
Tethering
Shinny
Iris
Beauty Sleep
Stoic Garden
Making Nothing Happen
Insomnia at Forty Below
Shrines
Déjà-vu
Chaparral Sunset
Collations and other Delights
Eggs
Once There Was a Thoroughfare
Enrique’s Viaticum
Oracle
Lozeau’s Azure
Tranströmer Beheld
Tranströmer’s Traces
Quasimodo’s Blessed Brume
Wörgl
Snapshot from Berlin
Zeitverschiebung in Berlin
Un chat parmi les livres
Global Warning