Running lines

It befits that an editors book should start with crossed out lines of Shelley in coming up Orphan hours.
This book is dedicated to Michael Collier with whom the author Stanley Plumly has co-edited a book.

The crack up in The Crows at 3 AM.  In those Orphan hours, like Michael Coliier's poem about birdsong, this poem has birds and other poets on birds.
The poets does away with spaces and runs lines in effect bringing to mind, different meanings of a word. after sunrise, the 'rose' recalls the flower, its colour and the verb rose of the sun and its concomitant colours in The Jay.
The sogs for the birds continue:
Still missing the jays
Vesper sparrow
Against starlings

On Dartmoor. A nature poem.
In 'Arbitrarily' the poet tries to match the pending gray of death.
Perspective. So many things must have been said about it. But the poet compares the perspective required in drawing to the one offered in life by memory, thus bridging two worlds.
Blind. A list of acquaintness with the blind, real and literary.
Ground birds in open country. The poet travels to many occurences of bird watching. We chase the birds or we are chased by them in memory.
Amidon Vhristmas Tree Farm cardinal. That bird death causing glass.
In 'I Love you' and Sitting alone in the middle of the night, Plumly acknowledges the power and presence of death.
caravaggios conversion
Some more poems
A review
An interview