Category: Poems

What is a ghazal?

Last year, through reading Jim Harrison, one of my favorite writers, I discovered a new poetic form — the ghazal, pronounced gutturally more like “guzzle.” It is an old Persian form that has been Americanized beyond some of the purists’ sensibilities. more »

Laments

                           Beethoven Notes muting themselves in a breeze sometime whirlwind — symphonic silence.                            Hound A beagle’s more »