ENTER A SUBMISSION TO PLUME

Poems

Sort By: Date Title First Line Random Index

  • The Real River

    Gauze gaze, the present’s freeze never sticks.

  • A Sampler

    As you hold your breath, like a watchman waiting for sunrise. Let’s replace immediacy with a swift cataclysm, replace

  • SELF PORTRAIT IN THE BACKYARD AS MOTHER

    Tulip-bellied, fists full of weeds, the baby shuffles over the wet grass,

  • JANUARY

    This longing for him the choke in my throat again —

  • Duets

    Telemann at 7:30 on an evening

  • Confession Therapy and Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

    One summer, as I was cleaning out the grooves in my palm, I was living in a monastery.

  • And

    And

  • A Brief Portfolio

    When Doris the hen

  • Club X

    Between the gaping double-doors of Club-X and two leather thugs,

  • Melancholia & Trouble in Mind

    On the periodic table, it is the densest of elements. It does not refract or reflect, but absorbs all

  • The Madonna Poems

    She bends to lift him from the basket.

  • On Contemplating a Sheep’s Skull

    Skull aged so much in rain and heat,