Poems

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  • He Was Amazed

    He was amazed by the curve of his life. What he thought unique had made its arc like any other, as if life had
  • ANTIGONE CONSIDERS HER FAMILY: Father and Mother

    He was always unhappy—
  • Rizal Stadium, World War II

    He was almost home, poor guy.
  • DHIMITRI

    He was a tall man on the edge of the couch
  • Door to Door

    He tooled around Long Island
  • I Dreamed of Obama on the Night of His First Election

    He stirred the coals of my dwindling campfire. We were alone. Blue tendrils of smoke punctuated the Mesozoic haze
  • Ebbtide

    He said one day when we are old, we—
  • An Intimate Moment of Protestant Despair Witnessed on the Four O’ Clock Train

    He put down his Wall Street Journal,
  • Borges at Dolphin Books: New Orleans, 1982

    He props his cane between Maps & True Crime,
  • The House of Wittgenstein

    He never saw the malls of Petaluma, nor met the amazing cricketeer Montezuma. He never heard a laugh track. We’d
  • New Year’s Day Truce, 1999

    He looked old and tired
  • A Date With an Undertaker

    He liked to bathe, dress,