Poems

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  • Questions for Fruit Flies and The Habit of Longing

    Humble as fruit flies may seem, they . . . engage in a host of complex behaviors
  • August, Hinge

    How would you describe these pandemic days,
  • Here at the Scene

    How will I tell her particular tale
  • Two poems from “The Mistaken Place of Things”

    How to say hair
  • Circus

    How the squirrel, skittish, leaps, lobbing its orange
  • GHAZAL 4

    How sullen we’ve become in the belly of the empire;
  • Snowfall, with Reconciliation

    How old winter is. However much we stain
  • City Harbor

    How often we come to a headland and a city opens,
  • Ghazal with Bread

    how many summers apart from you, in search of bread
  • And Now, As Promised

    How lousy are your prospects when you
  • Reading About Keith Jarrett This Morning in the Paper and Ode to the Table of Contents

    how he probably won’t play in public again
  • Want

    How do I want you? Let me count the ways.