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Poems

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  • August 3rd

    After twenty horrific minutes, I think she

  • A Brief Portfolio

    Not built to just do it

  • First Communion, forty-two and the unnamed

    I shall sit here, on this bench,

  • Unrest or What the French Horn Can Teach You

    To master the French Horn, you need lips of steel

  • Ode to Hands translated from Spanish by Mihaela Moscaliuc and Juan Suárez Proaño

    Nothing can hide from hands

  • Hymn of the Squirrels, Echidna Tremens and Singled Out

    Not an issue of ‘variety’, of red, brown, grey and black,

  • The Angels’ Share and Poem Without a Title

    Over distilleries’ rooftops, angels tipple

  • Streak, Exit Survey and Against All Endings

    A jackknifed semi full

  • from Sleeping with Bashō

    Growing out of clouds like a cedar tree—

  • Dear Lucinda Williams and Dear Jules

    A power in proximity to terror, the lower middle-class sublime of a car’s back seat,

  • The All-Overs, This is Where God Stays When He’s in Town and Mr. Jackson’s Killer

    I like words like gallimaufry, tawdry, billingsgate—braggadocio! Rodomontade.

  • Three Poems

    I’ve seen demons, each one tossed