Bags of Grass

Bags of Grass, Perennial Ryegrass

Poems are subject to revision so long as poets are able to wield the tools of the trade; only headstones get etched in stone. Bags of Grass/Perennial Ryegrass contains the latest versions of recent poems.

Taking the waters at the literary Lourdes of the Berkshires, Monument Mountain, Juky 2021; Matthew Lavalette photo.
Taking the waters at the literary Lourdes of the Berkshires, Monument Mountain, Juky 2021; Mathew Lavalette photo.
Wiseguys are the New Wranglers
Pivot of Fall
X marks the spot
Al fresco
Botanical America, or Project 2026
Semiquincentennial Dirge
Lament for the Visually Impaired
Don’t Be So Retarded
All that glitter
They’re OK, I’m OK
If Pronouns Could talk
Charge of the Light Blue *Brigade
Poetry is not speech
Apprentice and Aspirant Poets
April is cruel to Kings, not lovers
Alma Mater, or The Football Poem
War Orphans
Readers and Writers
Which dash-American are You?
Toward a New A.D.
Mothers and fathers of fodder
Yes, unless
The Know Testament
Fat heads crave A.I.
Organic prompts
A.I. is a big fat lie
What’s new is not
Dumb as a Smartphone
The Left isn’t Right, Emerson Is
Poetry is magic
They Push-We Pull
Everyday is Earth Day
Haberdashery
Must poems be reasonable?
Art Matters, Entertainment Counts
Lucky ducks
Lord Tennyson Prays for Peace
Emerson’s Art
Death Rattle
Eyesight Insight
Why reason?
Until the Muse
How to Tell a Good Poem
Owl Song
Haberdashery
Who Are You
The American Binary
Song of My Community
Or, current resident
How Risible the Visible
The Poet as Critic
On feet of clay
Break the News Cycle
Rhymes with Rushmore
Ballad of a Phatmann
To the Esteemed Poets
Fraught
October in a Poem
P’s on Earth
Monetizing private Ryan, or WW Too
Principal Retardation
Word to the Wise
Terrible Twos
Not These Hollow Pols
Occidental Haiku
Profess This!
Real Weather
Primary Binary
If it’s Bad for Metaphor, it’s Bad for Politics
Alphabet Soup for the Soul
Giddy Up
Wintertime Blues
The Next Homer
Our M.O.
white chickens
Free Poets Free Poetry
Read On, Write In, Drop Out
Dressing Tennyson
Look Up
Resolution
Without Poetry
this just in
Syllogism for Non-philosophy Majors
Modern American Poetry
Whimsy whispers
T.S. Eliot skips Pigalle
Add title
Yoknapatawpha
Vice verse
The Poetry of Henry Adams
Have you seen Johanna?
Commonsense Manifesto
It Is Simple
Siren or Sage?
The Plane Truth
Let’s start over
Tyranny v. Liberty
Schools of Poetry
Did Fiona Fail Hill Republicans?
Yankees Noodle
audi-o
Fakir’s Dozen Ways of Looking at Stuff
Machine Learning
13579@c
Joke
Homage, or not
Unrhymed Hinge
Re: what about a Wallace Stevens poem?
Hope is a Golden Noose
poetic therapy
The mind’s eyeball
Good Mount Rushmore
Poetry bears
The Revolution, Live stream
iMac iEnslave
Sonnet-19
Dy(lan) No Mite
Living Will
Poets Invent
Her Subject is Poetry
Frosted Gloss
Hunker Down
Out the Window: June 23, 2019*
Afterparty
Poems Are Not
Donald Hall’s last poem?
self portrait in birthday suit
Live Ekphrasis
In the Matter of Form
Paean to an Eminence
What’s the Word
Eagle Pond Farm Market
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Indifference, of Bob Dylan’s Significance