Poems

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  • The Year We Went Without Retiring

    The light was so entitled and the air so inflated and full of itself, you might have thought we were in Florida or back at the Tri-City Drive-in off 495 where we would watch adult flicks and you would get sick in the tall grass from the lack of kissing or a soundtrack.
  • Ambition

    Four in the morning,
  • when you ask me if you are a good father & cook up meets god

    look     we know how this will play out
  • New Home

    This house has no prehistory,
  • Ana Varela Tafur translated from Spanish by Yaccaira Salvatierra

    By the banks or the center of a river,
  • More Nights Than Days and Turn It Up

    At the end of my street, they cut the trees.
  • Dust

    You return with us to the grave,
  • La Bagatelle | Method | Dream Glance

    in cursive yellow hung above
  • Poem with Ginger in it

    This rough hooked lump, this botched
  • How Self-Consciousness Counts

    Why in hell should anyone understand
  • Last Christmas

    Your best friend had brain cancer
  • Breathing Room

    Not every week,