Poems by Craig Erick Chaffin
A Time to Weep
... Should those dark waves with their thousand eyes ...
At the Aquarium of the Pacific
... its eyes, though flat as dimes, looked deep as wells ...
Drug Trial
... III Spoke a prophet with his head on a platter: "To stand for something, ...
At the Vietnam War Memorial
... Let teachers suicide in public in partial recompense, ...
Leaf Sermon
... My last proteins fed the plankton ...
Last Poem of my 45th Year
... and propel the long black ship toward shore, heaven in a blue mussel shell, smooth ...
On the Anthropic Principle
... and the day blooms and withers toward the violet hour ...
The Obesion
... But he shall overcome them by his word: "Bears run over thirty mph despite their fat ...
To Kathleen, after Neruda
... your legs were sculpted in Greece, your hips formed in India, your face ...
