Poems

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  • Purge

    The Aryan Jesus, in Hitler’s painting
  • The Window & On Turning 79

    I check the den window a few times each day
  • Unfinished Business

    Cleaning up, in the kitchen, she goes to wipe away a small black seed from the counter.
  • Coda alla Vaccinara | A Dusting

    From Keats’s grave, past the Paladiana and Coyote
  • The Path of Non-Attachment

    Andrew totaled my car, leveled the house,
  • Meeting Shakespeare

    I met Shakespeare in a hotel room downtown.
  • OLD HUSBAND’S TALES

    I’m one who tells old husbands’ tales, not wives’,
  • In Search of Grace

    With slush to ground the Erie trees
  • Christmas Nineteen-Sixty-Something and Notes from My Doppelganger

    By that time we were hanging the tree from a hook
  • Things forgotten

    once in another city,
  • In Praise of Wandering

    You ask how we do it. Simple.
  • False Elegy

    I sometimes feel as if my mother has died and I’m free to reminisce her final months.