Poems

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  • What Was Left Out

    was the skirt my sister bought with the prize money
  • THE STREET

    Streaked and fretted with effort, the thick vine
  • Pathetic Fallacy

    Jog through this suburb at a blue hour
  • Chekhov’s Gun

    Atonement means nothing to a cook
  • God-Box

    They give us a white cube, a paper box,
  • Two poems by Jan Wagner translated from German by David Keplinger 

    when you are digging in the wardrobe
  • Meeting Shakespeare

    I met Shakespeare in a hotel room downtown.
  • California King, Head of the Meadow and A Miracle of Saint Anthony

    The little bright red car
  • Song a Year After My Mother’s Death

    I allowed a small song
  • Beautiful Worry

    this wan light, spaghetti-thin, uneases
  • Geese

    More dream now than memory, though memory is all it is: after an early dinner, I’m dropping them off at their
  • The Cricket

    You too have risen at midnight