One place understood helps us understand all places better.

Eudora Welty

Grasshoppers

Image: Kai Koehler


Grasshoppers seemingly hop in random directions, and so do poems. The poems on this page, many times, hopped away from the poet with a mind of their own. Others were more well behaved.

Anyone's guess


Into the grass
was a deeply
worn path


 

Cut grass

Give me a field
of cut grass
two inches or so deep.




The fleeting things
  
The fleeting things of 
this world
are its beauty,
a flower, a sunny day
a shared moment
between friends

A young ...



The Instructions

Tab one
into slot one
Tab two
into slot two
morning
into evening
Day one
without you.

 


White flowering tree

White flowering tree
Who sent you?
Your neighboring pines
don't catch my eye.

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