Dean : Writing

         Known But To God

Known But To God

A Poem by Dean


Out of all the brave and beaten menwhose echoed cries reboundfrom their victorious fields,a soldier died, and bravest yet,he who would travel back to ..
       Soliloquy

Soliloquy

A Poem by Dean


There is too much of disaster in freedom.Too many wrong choicesflaunt themselves before my eyes.Thrills I should not have.,minds I should not open,ide..
       At the Last

At the Last

A Poem by Dean


Light makes its retreatupon a thousand western hillsand it is time for endings.overlapping, self and self, leaping on the past, like hurdlersin a race..
        Bee to Flower

Bee to Flower

A Poem by Dean


If I would give the best to you,you tender forth the seat of my desire,a womanhood all wrapped in lustand echoing my criesthat will not be contained,y..
         Sin"s Benison

Sin"s Benison

A Poem by Dean


It comes as something of surprise.We need the broken figurines.the malice we expressed,the heart forever bound in cordsconstricting its magnificence.I..
          Cremation

Cremation

A Poem by Dean


Of a holocaust, the last redemption;like a spiritrising from its body at the end,the earth ascends to heavenand for a moment steals infinityand artful..
   Greening Time

Greening Time

A Poem by Dean


I think of green,and of a nation's springworn in by eveningswhen the summer's warmarked birth in dripping red,and autumn's amber griefgrew dry in sigh..
          Apostrophe to Dad

Apostrophe to Dad

A Poem by Dean


I think of how it was ten years agojust after you departed.All your close friends spokeof your "complexity"and we knew what it meant.I look far back t..
           Quintessence

Quintessence

A Poem by Dean


Continuous, that vibrant stream of consciousnessabove our heads, insouciant,though lacking alpha and omega,unassailable untilan uninvited, gracious gu..
       The Empty Bottle

The Empty Bottle

A Poem by Dean


A summer flood upon the desert,rolling the arroyoslike a nostrum for the seedsthat cling in desperationto that long forgotten ghost lifethat the anima..