Archive for 2011

  • Ready to Be the Lover She Remembers Forever

    The gods are everywhere
  • Throw it All Away

    My granddaughter who.  The one alive in speech descends.  A plate
  • Ars Poetica

    The dark night caught Jerome by surprise
  • Pour Ainsi Dire

    Drinking. What is boozing? If not a liquid manner of corresponding, thanks to wine,
  • Zodiacal Light: A Dialogue

    To see it, you look to the north
  • Plume

    The old wheelbarrow aimed like a cannon
  • Ödön von Horváth | Brief Incident in Short a, Long a, and Schwa | My Friend’s Creation | Contingency (Vs. Necessity)

    Cat, gray tabby, calm, watches large, black ant.  Man, rapt, stands staring at cat and
  • A Place

    As a foreigner, I wasted a lot of energy
  • Preludium

    In The Odyssey,
  • Of Weeping

    First there is the weeping one weeps when one reads a good poem,
  • Barrage Balloons, Buck Alec, Bird Flu and You

    First there is the weeping one weeps when one reads a good poem,
  • In Memory

    I remember the night my father died
  • Vesuvius

    No gazette ran the story,
  • The Ant’s Plunder

    When I stuck out my hand to grab the iron door handle, a hidden ant attacked my right
  • My Heart in Evening

    In the evening one hears the sharp shrieks of bats.
  • The Death of Erik Satie

    The arches aspire to points
  • Rare Moment

    A clear choice
  • Three Fascinations

    to wake to an alarm
  • The Gone and the Going Away

    The world I know keeps going farther
  • Tiger Story

    Somewhere during my first or second year a tiger came into my life
  • An Oracle

    Why does the line end sooner than the page?
  • Home-Boys: Baby & Me (a Sapphic)

    Ex-gang members. Driveby days over. Zero
  • from Landscapes on a Train

    There once was a church. There once was a steeple. These things fall into
  • from “From Nothing”

    One note, another, in the parlor’s angled light,
  • News from Nowhere

    The sea handles laundry
  • Halloween

    No gazette ran the story,
  • Wilhelmina Shakespeare

    Blond hair, blue eyes, buck teeth:  we taunted you
  • white paper #46

    Obama Waffles Mix
  • Duet

    Their quest--what does the human body mean?--
  • Grave

    Over the grave the bird will
  • Inroad

    The radiance that is always around us is incited
  • Cotton Candy

    At first it gives like a sponge, elastically, and you think you’ll only make an
  • Notes on a 39-Year-Old Body

    Most internal organs jiggle and glow and are rosy
  • Poems for the Absent One

    Mother death,
  • To Fire

    In my backyard, huddled over my magnifying
  • New Home

    This house has no prehistory,
  • Last Day in Coldwater

    Our phone died due to lack
  • Rune

    Not timber or bronze or iridium, not the old habits of species at a waterhole or the short
  • Showering Behind the Zodiac’s Curtain

    When blue hangs around me, I am
  • Thinly Veiled

    In Alabama I learnt the difference between the state flag and the battle flag
  • Here at the Scene

    How will I tell her particular tale
  • Che Fai Di Bello

    They are burning the fields in
  • KRVAVÝ KOLENO

    Why does the line end sooner than the page?
  • It Happened at Wind Sings, Trees Whisper Farm

    The wind, broken and wild,
  • Fado Tropical

    O mundo do rio
  • The Unmet Lover

    Once I saw you in a freight elevator
  • On Contemplating a Sheep’s Skull

    Skull aged so much in rain and heat,
  • Powder

    Yesterday I opened your pill box, and there
  • The Third Sequence: Time

    Ribbon
  • Small Hut

    I know you only in echo,
  • Rembrandt, Self-Portrait, Age 51

    Rembrandt, I aspire to your self-portraits
  • Another Argument with Jim About the Soul

    You say I’d know it exists if
  • Don’t Bum Out the Musicians

    At St. Paul’s church, the musicians have heard it all.
  • A Date With an Undertaker

    He liked to bathe, dress,
  • Soup Teachers

    we called them, the women who stood behind
  • A Fable: The Floss-Silk Tree and the Philodendron

    In Brazil they call the floss-silk  palo borracho
  • Late in October

    Late in October, I watch
  • It’s Not Just Trains

    The ticket office was closing
  • Pitty-Pat

    Oleander to the death of horses
  • Don’t Pick the Cherries Yet

    Don’t pick the cherries yet—
  • Widow

    You cannot consider yourself a widow just because the full moon has gone
  • Leave It Lay Where Jesus Flung It

    What a colossal wrong fall she took—that mastodon caught
  • The Hardworking Man

    On the island where I grew up, the hardworking man is the ideal man.  The
  • Focus

    The point at which
  • Fold

    I pet my pet, I fear my fear, I torment my torment, I wear my wear, I tear my tear, I
  • Missing

    If I told you simply that the bed in the Baptist Hospital
  • Paradise

    Our little vacation town in Spain is packed.  The driving, slow. Things have changed
  • The Lesson

    It seems to me you don’t dare express yourself
  • Late Portrait

    Dried flowers everywhere. Greeting cards. China plates hung on walls, showing a
  • Toussaint

    The soul, you said, is this sour wind, or this empty glass, the tiny steps of insects, these white iron
  • Like Body

    one light series    discrete
  • Mother Doesn’t Bite

    I bite instead and she needs salt,
  • The Remaining Breast

    I was showing my sister something about my breasts.
  • A Back Road Near Calais, 1961

    A Back Road Near Calais, 1961
  • A Nocturnal Upon Saint Charles Yeager’s Day

    Here comes that sonic boom
  • Poem for Shang Qin

    I’ve been digging my way toward you since the day I was born. I watch the
  • Today’s Comedy

    Why Dante in summer?