Poems

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  • Before and Rain

    Sweatpants balled up where his legs would be,
  • A Few Years After a Death

    Toward sunfall, when I begin to count
  • Fable 7, 8 & 9

    I knew a boy with swastikas on his sneakers. I never knew the story.
  • Phoenix Hairpin Terrace

    Yes                              Feng-huang plus three syllables
  • Threnody and Sylvia Plath

    The train coach, Jean—empty except for you,
  • Divorce Party Bonfire

    As in a secret rite
  • It’s the stage of grief where [I become a transparent eyeball]

    I become a transparent eyeball. I am nothing. I see all.
  • Shifts and Song for Sally

    Middle school cafeteria duty monitoring ungainly, dour
  • An Island

    Toward the end of the island
  • The Lost Explorers

    Give me the lost explorers, the last-seens,
  • The Orders of the Ordinary

    Death seemed no more
  • On Chanukah

    Isn’t fire itself