Poems

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  • Meditation on a Shower Rod at the Super 8

    You and I are snake bit. Can we postpone?
  • Sister Dementia Remembers & Phone Booth

    Enough of bosom, ass, and pillow—
  • Blind Trust

    In the nod of a cow as, stiff-legged,
  • Two Poems

    You search for the best doctors, try to curb her pain—
  • Before and Rain

    Sweatpants balled up where his legs would be,
  • New Year’s Day Truce, 1999

    He looked old and tired
  • Elevator Boy

    All night I lifted them through seven stories
  • The Definition of Postmodernism & If

    I was in David Lehman’s Modern Poetry class when I first heard the term “postmodernism.”
  • Hurdy Gurdy

    Like a grumbler who claims a five year old
  • In Which the Sea Rakes at My Window and Seemingly Unlike Me

    and I wake rattled, as if to resist a long fall
  • Letter From The Capital

    She writes: now we have wars between historical eras. We fight in time as well as space. 1914 vs. 1939 is a devastating
  • Two Poems translated from Romanian by Monica Cure

    In the first three days I heard my mother