Poems

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  • Portrait | The Traveler

    Recollections of my infancy: a patio in Seville,
  • Want

    How do I want you? Let me count the ways.
  • Open Book: 100 Secrets

    1. I was self-conscious that I looked like crap in the hospital as I sucked on ice chips sans lipstick.
  • Les Rochers de Belle-Ile [after the painting by Claude Monet]

    No beach here—just the sea
  • The City translated by Kaveh Bassiri

    I dream the city is flying in an airplane
  • Arf

    At the stoplight in Dogleg children swept metal
  • Somebody’s Got My Hair | Cuffed

    Somebody’s got my hair, I said to my lover, who stood in front of the mirror in a long white t-shirt brushing out her
  • Practicing Eights

    After I almost died, it was hard
  • Three Poems

    Somewhere in Brooklyn, a nurse walks out of the hospital where I was born,
  • Archaic Rayon Kamehameha

    Blue eyes like dusty Santa Rosa plums,
  • The Stranger

    A quick call
  • Rats

    Sudden underfoot, this one cries back