Poems

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  • Divorce Party Bonfire

    As in a secret rite
  • Observatory at the Prison

    The day is warm, so we take chips and pop from the visitation-room vending machines to a
  • Barrage Balloons, Buck Alec, Bird Flu and You

    First there is the weeping one weeps when one reads a good poem,
  • Fresco

    We stayed in a monastery cut up into condos, ours with a terrace of dried-up papery roses overlooking Fiesole.
  • Ars Poetica, with Cow

    She went back to look at the beast, which lay immobile except for one eye watching the girl who stood helpless beside
  • A Progressive Disease

    I feel my body getting away from me,
  • Let the Dead Bury the Dead

    Surely she would want to hear one final song, something from the Carpathians, something folkloric about flying
  • Three Poems

    These dead again and again
  • Sweet Tooth

    The man in the window is cheesecake;
  • Sunflower

    Relapse my maze
  • Boy in a Hole

    The boy meant to help his father
  • End of the Century

    We’ve slept too long, and that hasn’t stopped the incidental warping—