Poems

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  • Goat Theology

    Those who deny everything, yet want,
  • Death and the Miser

    When death comes, it all goes:
  • In Praise of Transformations

    Not always dramatic.  Often soundless.
  • In Search of Grace

    With slush to ground the Erie trees
  • Three Poems

    I remember a ditch of cattails, learning their names. How they rose by the bridge
  • Mangos | Talking Animals | Bringing Things Back From the Woods

    We did not have mango trees back home on the prairies.  The climate and soil conditions were not conducive to that
  • Arête | Eurydice

    The Hemingway who wrote three stories in a crummy hotel
  • Objects in Mirror Are Larger than They Appear

    That beautiful girl on a bicycle smoking a cigarette:
  • Two Poems

    Late afternoon, crows still at gossip
  • The Afterlife

    After life, pelicans glide above a shut- down bridge.
  • Tranquility & Tremolo

    Where song is, fire begins, tightens,
  • The Definition of Postmodernism & If

    I was in David Lehman’s Modern Poetry class when I first heard the term “postmodernism.”