Poems

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  • Visitor’s Coming

    I’ve laid out
  • Brasserie and An Annunciation of Blue

    We’re somehow in Closerie des Lilas,
  • What a Man Wants is the Power to Name the Terms of His Rescue

    If I had that power,
  • Listen Up  Medusa | Personal Narrative

    Seduced by your statuesque
  • 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
  • The Day

    Day I didn’t blink and the day was gone.
  • For the Dead Union

    After summer rain, the old-growth forest
  • Family

    None of my friends called their grandmother Nana.
  • Ode to Scars

    The scars on others’ faces draw me to them.
  • Three Poems

    I never saw the children who lived next door,
  • DHIMITRI

    He was a tall man on the edge of the couch
  • Two Poems translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa

    I told myself, why not