Poems

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  • The Window & On Turning 79

    I check the den window a few times each day
  • SUNDAYS | ALONE

    Mournful Sunday afternoons in winter,
  • Apologetics

    A host of angels or a compass of cherubim
  • Poetry: A Mirror, a Pencil and an Envelope. Seven Minutes with D. Nurkse and Nancy Mitchell

    In this candid interview, D. Nurkse reflects on a long life in poetry and political activism
  • Sleep

    There is a room, and inside the room
  • One of a Series

    My daughter sees the sky from another angle, slate-blue reflected in a lake called living. 
  • Trespass and Dante Confidential

    That is not your poem to write, she says.
  • Human Condition

    The human condition isn’t some grinning
  • Two Poems

    I thought I bought more soap
  • Arf

    At the stoplight in Dogleg children swept metal
  • A Series of Small Scandals and Dear Telephone Booth,

    Imogen photographed her new husband:
  • Between the Bed and the Window

    First, the light, which is always