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Nicholas Gordon

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• At Evening the Boats Crowd Towards Shore
• Bridges Are a Sign of Separation
• By the Tulips
• Fashion Finds No Favor in Your Heart
• Fear Not the Fairest Fortunes of Your Heart
• Forever Is a Metaphor for Now
• Forty-Five
• Grace Is Rarely Graceful, Though One Wake
• Holidays Are like Well-Tended Gardens
• How Can I Touch You when You're Far Away
• I Look at You and Think: I Cannot Live
• I Wanted Nothing Less Than Hope
• Intent on Giving Birth
• Jacob2
• Joy Leaves a Bit of Wonder in Its Wake
• Mind Is Not the Medium for Joy
• No One Is the Author of This Poem
• The Perfect Poem Should Flow like Wind
• Thirty-Five4
• Thirty-Four2
• To Daydream Is to Stir the Pot of Hope

Death

• Death Can Also Be a Dance
• Death Is like a Car
• In Eighth Grade My Best Friend Passed Away
• One Night I Saw Aaron
• Recently I Dreamed I Talked to You
• Rest in Peace, My Loved One, Rest in Peace
• Tears Flow Down to Endless Streams of Sadness
• The Gift of Life Is Never More or Less
• The Sky Is Falling! The Sky Is Falling!
• Thirty-Five4
• Understand Death Has No Use for Time

Epistemology

• Adam
• Anthony
• Behind the Act Is Always the Perception
• Beverly
• By the Eighth Day There Was No Longer Need
• Changes Find Their Agent in Obsession
• Dreams Are Not for Ravishers
• Each Moment Is a Word of Glass
• Each Numeral Contains a Mystic Meaning
• Even Angels Tire of Ecstasy
• Even When the Sky is Stone
• Everyday Suns Are Rarely Wonders
• Fifty-Four
• Given the Glory of Mountains and Seas
• God Knows the Price of Tuning Forks
• Home Must Be a Daily Re-Creation
• Hope Is Not the Creature of Sensation
• Hours Mean No More or Less than Years
• How Beautifully the Rushing Glass
• How Odd to See the Lamps Still Burning
• Hubble-Scopes Aloft Will See Anew
• I Don't Know Why My Mind Goes Numb with Numbers
• Janice
• Josh
• Language Cannot Be but in the Heart
• Meaning Is a Measure of Repose
• More than Once the Earth May Yield Its Secrets
• Movement Comes Most Often Without Motion
• Names Are Little Labels
• Neil
• Numbers
• Pretend There Were No Memories
• Rare Is the Thing That Makes a Point
• Reason Is No Cause for Revelation
• Righteousness Remains the Rock of Faith
• Rules of a Skeptic
• Samuel
• Seldom Do We See Trees Go Out Walking
• Several Days Before I Was to Die
• Shadow Is the Haunt of Beauty
• Sole Proprietor and Only Inmate
• Talk Is a Phobic Reaction
• The Future Has No Indians
• The Los Angeles of 1958
• The Mountains Seem as Distant as the Years
• The Only True Idea
• The Past Is Never Over
• The Thought Electric Wings Across the Shallows
• There Are Mountains Too Beautiful to See
• There Is No Greater Clarity
• There Is No Greater Paradise
• To Be Is Rarely Totally to Be
• To Be Sure, There Aren't Many Happy Seahorses
• Truth Is a Passion Uncontrolled by Sense
• Truth Is Just the Opposite of Sense
• Truth Is When One Says What One Believes
• Truth Is When We Think that What We Think
• Why Should We Care that We Must Lose the Past?
• Words Are Good for Things, like Cars and Trees
• Words Are Spoken with the Hand and Eye
• Words Mean Too Much to Mean Too Much at All

Ethics

• Adrian
• Bullies Like to Pulverize Their Pain
• Candice
• Charity Begins Where Interest Ends
• Charity Is like an Unsung Anthem
• Charity Should Make the Giver Sing
• Cheating Is a Crime Against Oneself
• Chelse
• Cynicism Comes from Self-Disgust
• Diba
• Dorothy
• Even in the Best of Times
• Even Though Passions Are Common as Rain
• Evil Has No Easy Explanation
• Fifty-Eight2
• Freedom Is Imprisoned in the Flesh
• Giving Gives Far More than We Intend
• Giving Is a Placid Kind of River
• Habit Is the Hand that Shapes the Heart
• Happy New Year! To Those Who Will Have None
• Harpies Are but Angels Who Are Harried
• Heaven Has No Clue to Happiness
• Here Among the Savages
• If Life Could Be a Court and We Be Tried
• In Heaven I Met Karl Marx
• Jayden
• Jaydon
• Kayla
• Peace Is Just a Brief Time Out from Killing
• Proverbs of Good and Evil
• Proverbs of Happiness
• Proverbs of Justice and Love
• Proverbs of Love
• Proverbs of Trust
• Reason Can Be Quite Unreasonable
• Seymour
• Show Me All the Bounty of Your Giving
• Society Is You and Me
• Tashina
• There Is No Armor We Can Wear
• There Is No Jail for the Soul
• Thirty-Four3
• To Be Happy, One Must Know the Rules
• To Live Is to Be Prey
• You Are Now Poised to Kill, Perhaps to Die

Metaphysics

• Accidents Are Rarely Accidental
• All Creatures Live Their Lives in Ecstasy
• Bees Swarm Along the Fragile Edge of Darkness
• Before Chaos, There Was Perfect Light
• Before Earth, Water, and Air Is Fire
• Before Us Is Nothing, Neither Future nor Past
• Being and Becoming Are Creations
• Being Is a Point, Without Dimension
• Being Is an Unrequited Passion
• Beyond the Many Mouths
• Blithe Fingers Know the Psalms of Adoration
• But Darkness Reveals What We Cannot See
• By Day Each Soul Must Walk Within Its Shadow
• Darkness Is the Glowing Field of Light
• Destinee
• Elizabeth
• Eventually, Memories Settle Down
• Evidence Is Rarely Evident
• Felice
• Fly upon Imaginary Wings
• For Every Rose There Is a Separate Spring
• Forever Is like Getting Off a Train
• Forever Is the Strangest Thing
• Forty-Six
• Forty-Three
• Gisela
• Happiness Is Neither Here nor There
• Holiness Is Everywhere Around You
• How Might Light Have Come from Nothing
• Just Being Who One Is, Is Paradise
• Lilith
• Longing Is the True Eternal Light
• Metaphysical Proverbs
• Moreover, Though You May Be Accidental
• My Name Is Vidya Niketan
• No Better Time than Now Can Be Imagined
• On Things of Least Significance
• Paradise Does Not Admit of Seasons
• Paradise Is Rarely Paradise
• Proverbs of Consciousness
• Proverbs of the Soul
• Some People Are a Ship, and Some a Hearth
• The Child Was Merely Accidental
• The Earth Does Not Regret Its Times of Mourning
• The Gift of Being Cannot Be a Given
• The Mountains Aren't Near Enough to Heaven
• The Ocean that We Live on Has No Shore
• The Wave Without Becomes a Wave Within
• The Wind the River Roils Well
• There Is No Being at the Heart of Being
• There Is No Greater Miracle than This
• Time Has No Relation to Despair
• Time Is Not a River but a Sea
• To Find All Cause Within the Present Being
• Today's an Ocean Which You Sail Forever
• We Don't Have to See Ourselves
• Zechariah

Wisdom

• Adages of Age
• Appearance and Reality
• At Odds of the Night My Sister Irene and I
• Barreling Along, I Stopped Awhile
• Catch the Wind
• Chris's Death, like Everyone's
• Each Truth Is Just a Scrim Across the Darkness
• Face the Passing Years as Though a Painting
• Fashion for Yourself a Perfect Mirror
• Fifty-Seven
• Gold Is Not the Only Buried Treasure
• Home Is Where One Feels a Certain Grace
• I Am a Lonely Wanderer
• Lewis
• Life Is Beautiful, My Child
• Love Redeems the Passions of the Moment
• Need Is Nothing More than Strong Desire
• On Wisdom
• Patience Is a Sign of Inner Peace
• Peace Is the Gift of What Nobody Sees
• Perhaps You Think You Never Will Recover
• Sing of All the Goodness You've Been Granted
• Singing at the Center of Your Soul
• So May You Know the Pleasures of Your State
• Some Are Picked for Pleasure, Some for Pain
• Tears Restore Hydraulically Our Balance
• The Road Ahead Is like the Road Behind
• The Road to Hope Leads Through Delayed Despair
• There Are Times the Sea Is Sullen Rage
• There Are Times when Life Yields Little Pleasure
• There Is a Garden in My Heart
• There Is No Garden Guaranteed to Bloom
• Though Mountains May Seem Far More Solid than Seas
• Time Tends to Make the Biggest Problems Small
• When I Was Young, I Thought that I Would Be
• You Had the Gift of Happiness
• Zachary