Poems

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  • SELF PORTRAIT IN THE BACKYARD AS MOTHER

    Tulip-bellied, fists full of weeds, the baby shuffles over the wet grass,
  • GETTING READY THE HOUSE | THEY ARE MOVING ALONG

    My friend goes to visit his grave
  • THE SECRET OF TIME MEETS A STRANGER

    You look familiar.
  • THINNING THE SPRUCES

    I’ve become ruthless with the spruces
  • ON EVERY HAND A GREAT PLAIN By Henry Israeli

    Two bears tearing at a tent
  • FREE VERSE

    Small woods upon an incline
  • WORDS IN THE WOODS

    All the words that have been spoken here
  • 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,