Poems

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  • What is Unknown

    When I tell her I’ve fallen for What Is Unknown, my mother’s face brightens.  “She’ll be a good girlfriend for you,”
  • Incident in the Park

    Working back from the moment I rose off the bench,
  • from The Violet Blood of the Amethyst

    An exceptionally unhappy heart.
  • Early Christianity: A Poem | Rome

    OK, says James, let them keep their foreskins.
  • Errand

    The fawn was
  • AN OTHER ROSE: FOR HENRI MICHAUX | FROM “ROSES: DEDICATIONS” | SINGING “ WITHOUT PEOPLE” | UNTITLED

    There is an other rose – soul of my kith and kin!
  • The Gifts

    The closet where the black sweaters hang. Where the game of backgammon is played
  • Purity | A  Withered  Rose

    Amazing solitude.
  • Spectacle | Dear Bathtub | Freeway

    Your eyewear and my eyewear,
  • The Birthday Ceremony

    Seventeen rooms of long maroon
  • My Lovely Garonne

    Because every tenth poem or so the poet described
  • Morgellons

    Jorge Luis Borges translated Thomas Browne