1. Meet Vole
Literature is open to everybody,
even pests.
2. Vole Feed
Nerve-wrung creatures, wasp, bee and bird,
felons for life or keepers of the cell, and
Vole in a wooden crib of seed and feed.
3. Winter Vole
Winter kept Vole warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
4. Vole Seasons
Vole has a winter too of pale misfeature,
Or else Vole would forego a mortal nature.
5. Sleepy Vole
How hard it is for Vole to sleep
in the middle of life.
6. Troubled Vole
Vole is troubled
by the occasional
flea.
7. Further Honey
A smell of further honey,
embittered flowers,
sirens Vole.
8. Vole Venture
Venture for the Vole!
9. Observing Vole
Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of Vole.
10. Curious Vole
Vole wonders if honour
to an ancient name
be due.
11. The City of Vole
Through me the way is to the city volent
Through me the way is to eternal Vole.
12. Transient Vole
As for Vole,
Vole is a watercolour. Vole washes off.
13. Vole Collection
Vole searches on endless sandbars in the dark
for building blocks to make Vole’s empire great.
14. Sensual Vole
Imagine, amid the mud and the mastodons,
Vole sighing and yearning with tremendous creative yearning
for some other beauty.
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16. Hard Times
Life is hard but
Vole pays no tax.
17. Hungry Vole
By the glow-worm’s light well guided,
Vole attends the Feast provided.
18. Vole Wisdom
It causes nothing but grief
to want to sleep with the gods.
19. Hunted Vole
The falcon cannot hear the falconer,
nor can Vole.
Things fall apart.
20. Vole’s Nightmare
Vole kneels in the nights
before tigers
that will not let Vole be.
21. Volenerable
Ouch!
Vole hurts.
22. Vole Compassion
Smaller and more helpless
but as deeply felt
miniscule lives
extinguished.
23. Vestigial Vole
Vole, you there?
24. Jesting Vole
Vole jests at scars.
Vole never felt a wound.
25. Loser Vole
It’s not true,
of course.
The art of losing
is
hard to master.
26. Poem without a hero
Vole is
no hero.
27. Stoic Vole
Vole does not fondle the weakness inside
though it is there.
28. Vole
Vole is not Vole
which alters.
29. Constant Vole
The woods have no voice but the voice of complaining
but Vole
holds fast.
30. Mistaken Vole
Vole is mistaken
for a shadow or symbol.
31. Procession
One had a cat's face,
One whisked a tail,
One tramped at a rat's pace,
One crawled like a snail,
One was Vole.
32. Strong Vole
Vole is not proved too weak
To stand alone.
33. Shadow Vole
Vole has a dark side.
34. Sage Vole
When the sun rises on ugliness, it is stark to see.
Vole does not carry it home.
35. Vole Heals
There will be mornings of sunlight
after the end of all things.
36. Vole Marker
When the dust falls over Vole’s thoughts
over Vole’s head with its gleaming jaws,
the brows made beige and ugly, into a blown ripple
into a snake of powder on the trail,
chance will maybe leave an edge
marking the jawbones, the dust wandering in the sun.
37. Vole in Love
Vole’s vegetable love grows
Vaster than empires, and more slow.
38. Happy Vole
Vole has a green thought
in a green shade.
39. Vole Pride
Pest is best!