Poems

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  • In the Waiting Room | City of Bridges

    Light poured
  • City That Cultivated Our Voice

    Back then, everything was only starting,
  • The Irretrievable

    Second shelf on the right. You’ll
  • What Santa Asked When Lord Russell Argued that “Santa Claus” was a Definite Description and not a Referring Expression

    I tell my students to heed four things and they will be fine.
  • Lion Cub & Whales

    We’d taken to being clever, or is that merely mischievous?
  • Wool Cap

    Flip is coming for dinner, I hear his car driving past the house. 
  • Genesis and The Anonymous City

    God made the world with his mouth.
  • Two poems by Jan Wagner translated from German by David Keplinger 

    when you are digging in the wardrobe
  • On Delta Flight #2164 From JFK

    I'm headed home from a stint at Long Island's
  • Valediction in Guatemala

    We say goodbye in front
  • Three Orgasm Poems

    She thinks success would be her best revenge. It’s not enough for her now, merely to be alive. Or to feel bliss in brief
  • A Habitation of Jackals, a Court for Ostriches

    Very dark now I put a seed in my mouth but its texture and taste