Poems

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  • Willing

    Hidden from all mothers’ eyes by blinded windows
  • Old Tunes, Politics, Karma & Career

    Took the afternoon off from the dozen things I’m supposed to repair, respond to, or maintain around the yard, and
  • Two Poems translated from Chinese by Steve Bradbury

    The still object Kazuo Ohno caressed is already growing old
  • How to Get Divorced

    STEP 1: For 20 years, swallow everything. Eat until you are the heaviest pillow on the
  • At the Grave of Robert Lowell

    Cruising Currier & Ives’ staid byway,
  • THE STREET

    Streaked and fretted with effort, the thick vine
  • On Beauty and To the Phaistos Disc

    I have a tree outside my house. I don’t know what kind—in spring, it blooms, gorgeous.
  • Fresco

    We stayed in a monastery cut up into condos, ours with a terrace of dried-up papery roses overlooking Fiesole.
  • My Friend, Nice Socks & The Last Dance

    My friend wanted to have breakfast at the local strip club.
  • Writing Under the Influence of Me

    It means I drop things, and I keep turning
  • Gott im Himmel and The Corner of Bellington Street and Sparta

    Gott was thicket, thorned, glottal,
  • Armorial and The World is Burning

    At least once or twice a season I take out