Is, is not: poems

Recognition

I. In the company of flowers

Almost lost moment

Ambition

Your dog playing with a coyote

Ability to hold territory

Blind dog/seeing girl

Doe browsing salal berries

II. Little inside out dream

Dream cancel

Stolen dress

Glass impresses

Hummingbird-mind

One deer at dusk

III. Correction

Sully

Retroactive father

Earth

The seemingly domesticated

Reaching

Right-minded person

In the too-bright café

IV. Let's store these hours

Season of burnt-out candelabras

The branches of the maple

Yet to be born weather

I want to be loved like somebody's beloved dog in America

While I was away

V. Without

Deer path enigma

The favorite cup

What does it say

VI. Bus to Belfast

Is, is not

As the diamond

During the Montenegrin poetry reading

Curfew

Eddie's steps

Four-footed

The gold dust of the linden trees

Blue eyelid lifting

VII. Button, button

Breath

To an Irishman painting in the rain

Encounter

Planet Greece

Cloud-path

VIII. Oliver

A "sit" with Eileen

Remembering each other while together

Opening

Word of mouth

Daylong visitor

Caress

March moon

Three stars

Afterword. Writing from the edge: a poet of two Northwests.