Poems

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  • GHAZAL 4

    How sullen we’ve become in the belly of the empire;
  • ARCHIMEDES

    Bent over the plate, she studies
  • NIGHT SPIDER

    All day he waited, then
  • LOOKING FOR ZAGAJEWSKI UNDER THE COUCH

    If his book of poems isn’t there
  • THE LEAVES HAVE NO PITY

    gathering under the porch like abandoned promises,
  • PAPERS

    On the great estate her Great
  • THE COURTING

    In every dark jazz club, in each smoky corner
  • cedar top goddesses from phil’s sawmill | ozark sonnet  

    The cedar goddesses lie down on saw-horses
  • WHY WE NEED UNIONS

    If the lion wants more
  • LA LONGUE DURÉE

    It’s a far cry from the blaze we light
  • CHINATOWN

    I almost bought a lucky dragon
  • OLD HUSBAND’S TALES

    I’m one who tells old husbands’ tales, not wives’,