Poems

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  • Bright in June Sun

    The young man, kneeling at his mother’s tomb, lays red tulips there,
  • Edinburgh University Anatomical Collection

    Take shelter awhile from mortality
  • Dear Creature

    Because of what I did
  • Other People’s Pain & Charade

    Remember her eating pad thai and grimacing
  • De Profundis | Sea Song for Couples in Love

    Sometimes you are going past on a motorbike and you look up in time to see a woman who loved you hand in hand
  • The Charter of Effects

    Counsel is a lawyer driven by money.
  • Head of a Woman with the Horns of a Ram

    I used to curse the sidewalk ice
  • Near the Sea

    All manner of birds love this windbreak hedge
  • At the End of the Alphabet

    Books bloated and fanned
  • The Wayfarer

    When the wings of the triptych are open as
  • Venn Diagrams

    Venn Diagrams   X-rays, muons, ultraviolet radiation— X-rays can diagnose fractures in the skull; muons can map spaces inside the pyramids at Giza; ultraviolet radiation kills bacteria in well water—in a Venn diagram, circles overlap. An array of sharpened pencils in a cup; cars parked at a casino; along a trail, small puffballs—these clusters manifest chance; and, pondering three who

  • HOW IT IS WITH THE MEEK

    They are pulverized into earth