Poems

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  • Florida

    The prettiest state,
  • Writing Under the Influence of Me

    It means I drop things, and I keep turning
  • Circus

    How the squirrel, skittish, leaps, lobbing its orange
  • Elegy for a Young Garden

    Shattered bricks, flayed sockets
  • Handel in London, 1741

    Wedged in a chair near the open window,
  • Annunciation

    I learned to hide the wings, almost immediately,
  • The Caravaggio Room

    Yuck, you heave in front of that sick boy
  • Without Apology

    Things happen. We’ve been promised
  • Seventh Circle

    And after the fight the moment of awakening
  • Ars Poetica, with Cow

    She went back to look at the beast, which lay immobile except for one eye watching the girl who stood helpless beside
  • Poem with Allusions

    The thoughts that come on little cat feet
  • On Either Side of the Word Lie

    The letters that must be taken away