Poems

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  • Guardian Angels Witness More Lives Than Yours

    You are eight years old.
  • Geese

    More dream now than memory, though memory is all it is: after an early dinner, I’m dropping them off at their
  • Three Poems

    Woman in Drugstore, Receptionist, Counter Lady with Change for a Quarter, Clubwoman, Saleslady, Train Passenger
  • Tsunami Letter—March 2011

    Shunning the safety of high ground
  • Suburban Landscape, Summer

    Me, young and girlish, flesh not yet mourning.
  • On the Grounds of the Zendo

    The face of the Buddha’s so smooth, she whispered,
  • Story of My Species

    first she was in the ocean
  • Leopard Goes Through Hell Villanelle

    When I am sober my brain calls me names. 

  • Angles | Bad News

    The master speaks to a tree.
  • Let Me Hear You

    I am the disappearing point of an inverted pyramid
  • Nautilus

    I fantasize about inhabiting a nautilus, how each chamber
  • Alien Valley

    I’m sick of prodding the infinite,