Poems

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  • The Definition of Postmodernism & If

    I was in David Lehman’s Modern Poetry class when I first heard the term “postmodernism.”
  • Three Poems

    I was four or five, bored by the dull terrain
  • Without You

    I was doing just fine, a job, a home,
  • Portrait of My Father as a Snake

    I was dead. The hospital around me
  • Oj Golube, Moj Golube

    I was born to pigeons cooing.
  • Classmate

    I was at the beach talking with someone else
  • The Child and I

    I wanted to go fishing one day,
  • Proof of Poetry

    I wanted first to end up as a drunk in the gutter
  • Head of a Woman with the Horns of a Ram

    I used to curse the sidewalk ice
  • Country of Other Arrangements and Spinach Salad

    I used to be neatly folded, sound
  • EVERY MAP IS AN ISLAND

    I turned away from the paper
  • OLD LOVE LETTERS

    I too have my stack