Poems

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  • A BAT IN THE HOUSE

    swoops high, webbed little arms for
  • But the Avant-Garde

    did find ways to wear TV as clothing--the monitors,
  • Could Someone Please Check on My Mother?

    When the young man thought about the history of poetry
  • Sign Language I & II translated by Kareem Abu-Zeid

    It’s not that I
  • ALL THE BOYS

    my face is old now
  • Q&A for Keyhole and Mammogram Hair

    After my reading to high school students
  • ON EMPATHY

    Wary of the verb  “empathize”—together with its noun “empathy” and adjective
  • κάθαρσης

    Dr. Clark ordered daisies
  • Gun Notes

    This man and I softly discussed hunting
  • False Elegy

    I sometimes feel as if my mother has died and I’m free to reminisce her final months.
  • OÚ EST LE CHAT

    I can ask this, which is good
  • GHAZAL 4

    How sullen we’ve become in the belly of the empire;