Poems

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  • The Wayfarer

    When the wings of the triptych are open as
  • Showering Behind the Zodiac’s Curtain

    When blue hangs around me, I am
  • Essay with a Grain of Salt

    Salt on black silk
  • The Invention of Everyday Life

    A few days later Pierre arrived.
  • How to Topple a Kingdom

    Read overly-detailed novels.  Prefer
  • Three Poems

    Heat, filthy, gut-sick heat in my city’s cobblestone streets.
  • The Loneliness of His Death

    I like to think there’s a place where all the poets go
  • SHALL BEAR UPON HIS SHOULDER IN THE TWILIGHT

    Reaching from history, that alpenglow, towards the dead whose clothes I wear
  • From Rainer Maria Rilke’s Die Sonette an Orpheus / The Sonnets to Orpheus translated from German by John Rosenwald

    O fountain-mouth, you gift-giver, you mouth
  • Talisman

    Quetzal: you write
  • EASTHAM TURNIPS, ROUTE 6, NOVEMBER

    Honor System, the sign tacked to a scrub oak said,
  • Acne

    And I’d see it that way, the word, all