Poems

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  • My Courbet, by Jonathan Galassi

    My Courbet
  • One of a Series

    My daughter sees the sky from another angle, slate-blue reflected in a lake called living. 
  • CALLING BACK | CHARITY

    My daughter sings in snow falling through the scent of red oak or ash, some of the flakes large enough to contain passages from Emily Dickinson’s letters. 
  • Reading Heidegger Brings a Wild Joy

    My discovery of your essential thingness
  • Magical Thinking

    My dog does not question
  • ALL THE BOYS

    my face is old now
  • Wooden Boards

    My father carefully rolls his pant leg up, places his leg between two wide boards. He tells my mother to jump hard on
  • The Afterlife of Breath

    My father dead on the gurney
  • My Father Was a Honey Bee

    My father was a honey bee He buzzed and buzzed
  • Using these questions, would you please write a brief description of yourself?

    My favorite creature is the tree porcupine.
  • Three Poems

    My fingers grow white with winter, blood
  • Football & the English Language

    My first year as high school coach, five points