Poems

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  • Honest Orbit

    For weeks I sift in vast exits
  • SOLILOQUY OF A TORNADO IN THE DISTANCE

    I knew a girl once
  • Strychnine Tree

    Stranger under this love-sick tree, lapful of terminal clusters
  • I Spent one Summer with a Semi-colon

    in those days people called it shacking up
  • I’ll Be Fine

    Give or take, without my books
  • It’s Not Just Trains

    The ticket office was closing
  • Elegy for a Young Garden

    Shattered bricks, flayed sockets
  • Cold Front Coming

    A crescent moon
  • The Hardworking Man

    On the island where I grew up, the hardworking man is the ideal man.  The
  • Reading About Keith Jarrett This Morning in the Paper and Ode to the Table of Contents

    how he probably won’t play in public again
  • Amaryllis

    Like the bell of an old Victrola,
  • Murder Ballad & A Story of Teeth

    Georg Wilhelm Steller married his sea cow in a simple  ceremony  on a Bering  Island  beach.