Poems

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  • Found Poem: “Swelling Anti-Asian Violence: Who Is Being Attacked Where,” NYT, April 3, 2021 

    Queens | A 47-year-old man and his 10-year-old son
  • Talisman

    Quetzal: you write
  • SHALL BEAR UPON HIS SHOULDER IN THE TWILIGHT

    Reaching from history, that alpenglow, towards the dead whose clothes I wear
  • How to Topple a Kingdom

    Read overly-detailed novels.  Prefer
  • Last Poem

    Reader, today
  • On Being Mused Upon

    Reading his poems, you recognize yourself
  • Portrait | The Traveler

    Recollections of my infancy: a patio in Seville,
  • Glimmer Train | Strike-Slip

    Redwinged blackbirds in the cattail pond—
  • Rabbit

    Regard the luckless cotton-tail,
  • Sunflower

    Relapse my maze
  • Rembrandt, Self-Portrait, Age 51

    Rembrandt, I aspire to your self-portraits
  • Other People’s Pain & Charade

    Remember her eating pad thai and grimacing