Poems

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  • SCENE FROM A PHOTOGRAPH IN A DREAM

    What was I doing in my childhood room again?
  • The Charter of Effects

    Counsel is a lawyer driven by money.
  • A Five-Years-Late Note to Jake Adam York

    In Chicago, where the light plows over the lake into convention
  • Hagstrom

    I examine my scarred torso
  • The Orders of the Ordinary

    Death seemed no more
  • RETURN OF THE HERO

    So they brought in a bird for him,
  • Elegy

    The breeze this morning pulls on the surface of the bay
  • Transfer

    Now they tell us
  • The Definition of Postmodernism & If

    I was in David Lehman’s Modern Poetry class when I first heard the term “postmodernism.”
  • Late Elegy for Charlotte

    You were about to sail the Seine.
  • Winter Landscape with Bird Trap

    Only sparrows fly down, crows wait in treetops.
  • We Lay Our Fear in a Wicker Basket

    Too drunk, walking around