Poems

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  • Life Pig

    The hams the hocks the oddly delicate
  • ON SILVER SPOONS

    The Golliwog spoon, we called it, the handle shaped like a head with heavy-lidded eyes and a thick-
  • Ready to Be the Lover She Remembers Forever

    The gods are everywhere
  • To Manuel Bandeira | To Hilda Hilst | To Adélia Prado

    The girls are still   a d o r a b l e
  • The gift of putting something down…

    The gift of putting something down, he had yet to discover it--letting it slide from his grip.
  • Birds in the Night

    The French government, or was it the English government,
  • Trudy Cooks Fish and The General

    The fish seemed fresh that night, as if they’d been caught off the coast near Zanzibar
  • Ghosts

    The first time I saw him he was standing
  • Tchaikovsky’s Fifth, On Freud’s Birthday [May 5] & In Vienna

    The first movement of Tchaikovsky’s
  • Indian River at Dusk

    The first and only time I caught a sheephead
  • Miss Lola Ridge (1873-1941)

    The fire of the world is running through me.
  • Errand

    The fawn was