elliot r. wolfson
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elliot wolfson has published two poetry collections thus far. the first collection, Pathwings: Philosophic and Poetic Reflections on the Hermeneutics of Time and Language (Barrytown, NY: Barrytown/Station Hill Press, 2004), includes 60 poems appearing in conjunction with a selection of his essays. the second collection is entitled Footdreams & Treetales: 92 Poems (New York: Fordham University Press, 2007).

a third collection, entitled On One Foot Dancing, is available below.


wolfson has dubbed his entire poetic corpus "preparations for death."

on one foot dancing
table of contents:


1. sanguinity
2. skyscrapers & skulls
3. life's last moment
4. morning moment
5. suffocation
6. carbon & chime
7. we, first-person
8. ode to rush hour/subway discretion
9. so fast the rhyme
10. pulsating placidly
11. poet disbelieved
12. nuptial
13. maybe just/silence today
14. heads or tails
15. romance & remonstration
16. tathāgata
17. absolution
18. windfall & footblow
19. retracing ahead
20. light breaking
21. curriculum vitae
22. love sutra
23. time in tomb
24. heartscrabble
25. mazzal
26. enlightenment
27. death come soon
28. hope
29. easter bonnet
30. anatta
31. jittery repose
32. sky earth
33. moonwave
34. return
35. shattered glass
36. dogmatism
37. love's spring
38. in moment's blink
39. (em)(ployed)
40. fortune born
41. inside out
42. entwined
43. time scars
44. glass heart
45. solar frost
46. beyond repair
47. constellation
48. leviticus advent
49. arrow & bow
50. envisioning darkness
51. killing time
52. annunciation
53. tashlich
54. re/pair
55. crossroad
56. paramāttha
57. firmly fixed
58. awake
59. serpent dance
60. st joseph's limb
61. blistering dark
62. father time
63. ice cubed
64. dusty rose
65. in love
66. anamnesis
67. nembutsu
68. beyond nothing
69. empty stone
70. here's to love
71. river seed
72. ex nihilo
73. a/voidance
74. eyeglance
75. feathers of text
76. glittering gray
77. from light to light
78. participation
79. retrograde
80. thoughtbridge
81. bridgewomb
82. green moon
83. watercloud
84. bullfrog
85. time in field
86. forethought
87. afterthought
88. more broken
89. cutbreath
90. oceans of light
91. rivers steel
92. darker still
93. entreaty
94. crippled
95. bread & resurrection
96. cum grano salis
97. fireweed
98. moose tale
99. sabbath bow
100. resurrection bay
101. seafarer's lament
102. aspiration
103. vajrasattva
104. advent
105. shakti tree
106. synaptic chasm
107. signature
108. non compos menti
109. atakkāvacara
110. pegasus
111. warranty
112. incubation
113. festivity
114. credo
115. vartamāna

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