Poems

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  • Dear Meat

    What's your point?
  • Letter to My Almost Former House

    It’s true, I’m getting ready to leave you.
  • Liquidation

    Final closeout, clearance sale, you said:
  • From Rainer Maria Rilke’s Die Sonette an Orpheus / The Sonnets to Orpheus translated from German by John Rosenwald

    O fountain-mouth, you gift-giver, you mouth
  • Two poems translated from Spanish by Adriana Scopino

    What a fire is kindled in the windows
  • Alone at 77 & I Arrive at the Scene

    Unhungry, he cracks a single egg.
  • The Sun Pours Forth & An American in Paris

    We are in a garden among friends
  • At the Frick Collection in New York City

    Such a small work by Giambattista Tiepolo, Perseus and Andromeda
  • What a Man Wants is the Power to Name the Terms of His Rescue

    If I had that power,
  • HOUSEKEEPING:  Frida’s Future Kiss

    After the palm reader told her no man would ever claim her,
  • Notes on an Illness in Spain & the grist of gratitude is like ingratitude

    The sinuous ripple of a well-broken in fan, a soft hand
  • Cockatiel & View From Another Planet

    Wild for it to end