Poems

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  • St. Rose of Lima

    Lips weary with chapped hallelujahs,
  • The Stranger

    A quick call
  • ON SILVER SPOONS

    The Golliwog spoon, we called it, the handle shaped like a head with heavy-lidded eyes and a thick-
  • False Darkness

    I need the sun to be setting
  • Grand Marais Estuary, in Fog (after the painting by Stanley Krohmer)

    Color of ice, or heaps of snow, gray-blue, slate.
  • Guitar & Lantern

    The boy with prosthetic limbs is the flame
  • In the Golden Silence of Vineyards & My Wine translated by Paula Bohince

    In the golden silence of vineyards,
  • Post-

    Clenching, unclenching her thin white fingers,
  • The Merchants of Venice

    The man speaks some Italian, the woman
  • My Polish and Another Poem

    When I try to thank it, it shushes me. Then illuminates my way to the Exit.
  • Family Once Removed and Who Cooks for You?

    I like to be alone
  • Untitled

    But here in the city there are signs and crowds in the street