Poems

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  • Sprang

    Before tracking pods of killer whales in and out
  • The Silver Bullet

    When I wasn’t washing my hands, I remembered
  • Rain Sonnets

    When the bear finally arrives, he’s starving. He wants whatever’s in my little blue basket, the Tupperware and the
  • Meeting Shakespeare

    I met Shakespeare in a hotel room downtown.
  • The NewMath and Nor Easter

    There may still be time to find the cosine of x. Under an à la mode
  • IN PROFILE

    Words hung into silence
  • An Invasion

    We waited and waited, or by we
  • Hail to Thee,

    I write, my wrist nodding
  • The City translated by Kaveh Bassiri

    I dream the city is flying in an airplane
  • Booklet, Hand-Pressed Paper, Containing Locks of School-Children’s Hair, c. 1861

    Wound on a bobbin like thread.  Woven into a wreath
  • AN OTHER ROSE: FOR HENRI MICHAUX | FROM “ROSES: DEDICATIONS” | SINGING “ WITHOUT PEOPLE” | UNTITLED

    There is an other rose – soul of my kith and kin!
  • Regret

    Later in life, we enter the neighborhood