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This is my self-published manuscript that (along with the 10,000 to 12,000 other poetry manuscripts that are sent out every year) has been rejected by all the New York publishers and the thirty or so poetry contests that are held every year by university presses. Even these words, the ones you are reading now, are like Han Shan's poems: seen only by those who happen upon them by accident.
So here my poems are, courtesy of a fine press in Indiana, none of which are soggy from the gentle descent from my own Cold Mountain.
The moon over Maricopa
Is a carved heart,
Or one
Caught in progress—
The paring knife checked,
As if in doubt with what’s
Been done so far.
I’ve traveled this route before,
Seen the same desert lights
Of the far Walapai farms dangle just
Out of human reach,
The horizon always imagined,
Never where you think it will be.
In this corridor of light
On the highway north
Of Tucson
You sleep beside me,
Your own darkness recently shorn.
I forget the magician’s name
Or why it had to be—
Though I see how your lips
Easily recall his name as you dream.
I watch the moon over Maricopa.
There is blood light everywhere we turn.
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