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Poems

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  • Late Portrait

    Dried flowers everywhere. Greeting cards. China plates hung on walls, showing a

  • Lava Lakes and Petrified Forests in the Afterlife

    I watched a roomful of faces exert effort to remain unrevealed

  • Lazarus

    She sucks the cigarette

  • Learning to Play It Again

    While my daughter was learning Clementi —

  • Leave It Lay Where Jesus Flung It

    What a colossal wrong fall she took—that mastodon caught

  • Leaving the Big City

    So afterward I sat by the bosphorus blue water and many dazzling

  • LEONTES

    Elusive, but only sweetened by

  • Leopard Goes Through Hell Villanelle

    When I am sober my brain calls me names. 


  • Leprechaun

    The old woman next door would appear in

  • Les Rochers de Belle-Ile [after the painting by Claude Monet]

    No beach here—just the sea

  • Let Me Hear You

    I am the disappearing point of an inverted pyramid

  • Let the Dead Bury the Dead

    Surely she would want to hear one final song, something from the Carpathians, something folkloric about flying