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POETRY REQUIEM Peter Cooley It is April, spring. The world’s oldest beginning. My birds are at it, every moment new, again. They go on, heralding, on, incessant. What melody will they...

â€œMidas and Midasâ€ (May 2021)

POETRY MIDAS AND MIDAS Peter Cooley What did I find in love’s high offices, the lives of saints, the words priests drilled in me? I’ve found more love in parlance of the stones as they ring one...

"Besides" (April 2021)

BESIDES Peter Cooley there’s never-heaven always in my hand reminding me my fingers have no grip on Heaven ever, coming through the trees— that kind of fastening the morning holds on...

â€œOctober, Fallingâ€ (October 2020)

POETRY OCTOBER, FALLING For Jacqueline Cooley, 1944-2018 Peter Cooley Last night the trees changed color while I slept. One moment at my window: a new world. Love, do you continue transmuting...

â€œAftermathsâ€ (June 2020)

POETRY AFTERMATHS Peter Cooley After last night’s rain, the world begun again— you know what I mean, you have felt it often— I go to the window. For a moment the world only my backyard, such...

Among the Errancies (April 2019)

AMONG THE ERRANCIES Continue by just trying to be one man, not multiplicities like the cloud cover. Mimic the sun. It's one no matter how gulfstream weather darkens, thickens, dispensing...

Unanswered Questions (April 2019)

UNANSWERED QUESTIONS The birds are doing their homework, singing trees into a vision I have never claimed until this instant. My homework? To raise wings, claiming the music of my dead...

Friendship Intercept (February 2019)

FRIENDSHIP INTERCEPT We never know how many days we have until the call goes out to us, wordless, the crow says, cawing on my morning walk, caw-caw-caw-cawing, breaking up the walk— But, of...

Two Poems (October 2018)

CONSPIRACY OF SPARROWS What are they heralding, perched along the curb, our sudden shower an hour ago a river stopping the drain I should have rushed to clean? How can whatever day I might...

The Instants (June 2015)

THE INSTANTS After last night's rain, the world begun again— you know what I mean, you have been here often— I go to the window. For a moment the world is my only backyard, such gold as I have...

Two Poems (May 2015)

Two Poems by Peter Cooley SUNDAY MORNINGS I've never found another name for Heaven except heaven-here—this walk around the block— our meeting-place-between we live our lives, terra infirma, the...

December 28, Day of the Holy Innocents (December 2008)

Commonweal . December 19, 2008 passion was a further humiliation and contradiction, though Péguy successfully resisted the temptation and maintained his fidelity to his family. Raïssa Maritain...

In The Months of the Bombings, March-April 2002 (September 2005)

r o In the Months of the Bombings, March-April 2002 I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it @side down. --The Book of Kings Oh, world beloved, why all this...

Portrait Of Estelle Musson de Gas by Edgar Degas (September 2005)

Portrait of Estelle Musson de Gas by Edgar Degas --New Orleans Museum of Art Soon, you will be blind, then dead, before that, abandoned by the only man you wed. Just now, though, the gladioli...

The Rapture (December 2003)

The Rapture Beyond the window he stares out, oblivious I've come back, my father is entering the afterworld. I am still here, working Dad's "senior residence," occasional nurse, valet, waiter,...

The Pay of Small Things (September 2001)

The Day of Small Things opens on my window as it unveiled itself to a small boy fifty years back leaving his sleep. This is the solitude so absolute each pear on the pear tree in the backyard is...

Cooney, Ellen

Cooney, John

Cooney, R.C.W., Kathleen

Cooper, Elizabeth Ann

Cooper, Frederic Taber

Cooper, Frederick Taber

Cooper, FredericTaber

COOPER, JOAN M.

Cooper, Lyle W

Cooper, Lyle W.

Cooper, Rand Richard

Cooper, Rand Richards