Poems

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  • The Pair

    Here’s how they climbed out of the nights’ custody.
  • From the River of News

    The President and his opponent both speaking in Ohio—
  • Deceiving the Gods

    The old Jews rarely admitted good fortune.
  • On the Beach at Divi Bay, St. Martin

    Was melancholy yesterday, watching slate-grey clouds
  • ON THE RMS QUEEN MARY | LATENT IMAGE

    I'm exploring the decks, the ship docked in Long Beach since '67. Same liner Mom sailed in '39 from England to
  • (…) | In Your Land

    Let your heart beat like a gnat in an autumn lamp,
  • The Old Thoughts

    Immersed, called forth—
  • Two Poems

    You’d think somebody would’ve put those six
  • Invitation to the Dance and Pieces of us Keep Breaking Off

    In the summer of 1949, Jacques d’Amboise found himself in a clash with a bully
  • Truce, Class Notes & On Rereading the 23rd Psalm

    My high school class of 1950
  • Insomnia

    It is a stain that feeds on moons
  • Stammer  (2 pp)

    Was I hatched from an egg, fostered by birds