Poems

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  • from THE CITY OF PARIS HAS YOU IN MIND TONIGHT

    When G died began the midnight panic attacks.
  • Sign Language I & II translated by Kareem Abu-Zeid

    It’s not that I
  • Dentist, Mexico, 1959

    The room was big, not small.
  • Three Ballerinas & Blue Plaques

    After the war, my father bought three little porcelain figurines in Germany, three
  • A Story about the Bees

    I still have the bees
  • Poems translated from Romanian by Monica Cure

    Adila watches as evening falls
  • Paradise

    Our little vacation town in Spain is packed.  The driving, slow. Things have changed
  • The Cormorant

    They slip the string
  • A Pittsburgh Bakery in Winter

    Into Prantl’s, on Walnut Street,
  • Salgado Maranhão’s “Mythic Ground” translated by Alexis Levitin

    For the living, this is the ground,
  • OLD LOVE LETTERS

    I too have my stack
  • Paying a Blind Man to Wash and Wax My Car

    Maybe they’re right, friends who mock me,