Published Poems, Press, and Practice Poems.

Poems on this page often move between draft and published. When poems are removed, they go to my workshop with other draft poems to be posted on this site later, or it is in the workshop to be published in my next collection. Posting poems on this site helps me view them in a new light. Generally, poems move through significant revision (though folks who write poetry often never tell you as such) to reach their potential. In a way, it’s like a different music set list for my inspirational occasions.

Barbed Wire
Guy Craig Guy Craig

Barbed Wire

Old leather gloves

and wound metal of barbed wire,

dry my sweating hands

from nicks and new scars’ ire,

so let this western red cedar

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On the River We Float
Guy Craig Guy Craig

On the River We Float

I am upriver without care,

free of town’s weight and structure,

as my untempered soul and bent frame

the cool-summer water gently laps,

this partial shade from the shore’s willow and myrtle

a welcome, freckled cap, signaling celebration—

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