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Category Archives: Poetry

Below are a few samples of my poetry.

Renga For Ben

Posted on November 9, 2017 by John Wolff — Leave a reply

All night, a late snow descends unseen, smothering the young crocuses. * Gray-hulled clouds float east at dawn, covering the meager sun. * My dog sniffs between the slats of Continue Reading →

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Master of the Nets

Posted on November 7, 2017 by John Wolff — Leave a reply

I have been known to mix my tracks with fishermen, to watch them cast below the dam, under brass-lacquered maples, out into the crushing white water— have watched as salmon Continue Reading →

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On My Son Ben

Posted on August 15, 2017 by John Wolff — 1 Comment ↓

I know a tree where you used to play, a hundred townies’ names sliced into its tattered trunk, a vast beech with serpentine arms that have long reached over our Continue Reading →

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Ikebana

Posted on August 12, 2014 by John Wolff — Leave a reply

—for Jessamyn Foliage should dominate, stems never cross or obscure the line poking heaven, all flowers odd in number, humble, without thorns, no hothouse roses, none of those bright, showboating Continue Reading →

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100-Word Water Ceremony

Posted on January 16, 2012 by John Wolff — Leave a reply

for Tim and Judy He spoke of the ocean of suffering, an ocean of cars and hospitals, burnt toast, frozen pipes, old skin, cancer, caskets, and birth—how we are born Continue Reading →

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Some Birds Never Sing

Posted on January 16, 2012 by John Wolff — Leave a reply

Even after church bells, car horns, or the noon whistle have set such a good example, the world is more silent than we dare know, a surrendered, limp, unspeaking thing. Continue Reading →

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With Jordan, Summer 2011

Posted on August 3, 2011 by John Wolff — Leave a reply

At morning the trees ripple like anemones, and we move with a similar lightness, collecting food in plastic bags, glazing our skins with lotion, driving out along the shore of Continue Reading →

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The Twenty Percent of October

Posted on January 16, 2011 by John Wolff — Leave a reply

The fall rain lets itself down, crackling through the poplar trees, leaves now glazed by the vermilion sun, a vermilion slit at the edge of dusk. It is October, it Continue Reading →

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