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  • A Different Origin

    When the snake in Eden approached Eve

  • A Demitasse of Extinction

    So funny how that uncanny, unfunny man sought you out on a rainy day in Istanbul—you were in earshot of the bazaar and smoking a hookah, and, of course, it was Ramadan.

  • A Date With an Undertaker

    He liked to bathe, dress,

  • A Convalescent Bed in a Field of Yellow Tulips

    Your wires trail into a gopher hole.

  • A Controlled Substance

    My brother is late again, somehow the glass

  • A Catalogue

    You wrote me a letter in a very fast hand

  • A Canticle Rehearsal in The Temple and The Waters Do Not Return, Even to Meribà

    Oh, I am tired of my land,

  • A Brief Portfolio: Heaney in an Irish Pub & Other Poems

    Heaney in an Irish Pub, Washington, DC, Hunger, In the Bishop's Garden:  Hide and Seek and Lost in China

  • A Brief Portfolio: Five Poems

    I found this suitcase slumped in a dark attic corner

  • A Brief Portfolio of Six Poems

    The pond flattered the foliage,

  • A Brief Portfolio of Six Poems

    told us Hollywood was a verb on the painted stretcher &    fretting,

  • A Brief Portfolio of Selected Poems by Yves Bonnefoy translated by Hoyt Rogers

    I admire the definition of poetry in Beasts, Men, and Gods, the inexhaustible book by Ossendowski.