The poems on this site cover a span from about 1995 to the present. Some of them have been published elsewhere, and some have not. On each page, you can click the play button for streaming readings via SoundCloud.

Chris Gladden Chris Gladden

The Fawn

A blaze tears through

the mid-autumn woods

wild shades

in the fleeing sun

Still warm sighs

rise through jubilant trees

caress glowing leaves

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Chris Gladden Chris Gladden

In the Aftermath

July and

four days of monsoon rain

Mudslides on the edge of town

Roads washed out

Splintered pines crisscross

piled earth and smashed houses

An upturned car

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Chris Gladden Chris Gladden

Hokusai’s Peaks

Hokusai

the unrivaled master

of woodblock print lived his

later years in Shinshu

Old Nagano

Enshrined by the lofty ranges

that have always set

wanderers to dream

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Chris Gladden Chris Gladden

On Social Change

People of the wind

Blow and howl

Shape and curve

And lodge dust in wide eyes

They swell and raze

Bluster   vary their force

Steadily bending the landscape

To their longing

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