Poems

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  • Breakfast, the most important poem

    So far, pockets are good
  • Government Center

    Screeching right up to us through downtown Friday traffic.
  • Madonna in Blue

    An aneurism in the sun, a gravity-wave.
  • Amusements

    These are the long days that fill with night
  • From AfterTalk

    Dumuzi spoke: “My sister, I would go with you to my garden
  • Invitation to the Dance and Pieces of us Keep Breaking Off

    In the summer of 1949, Jacques d’Amboise found himself in a clash with a bully
  • Ubi Sunt

    In the bottom left corner of Pennsylvania,
  • Voicegrass and Incantation…translated from the Swedish by Bradley Harmon

    the word the night bore
  • On Friendship, Haiku, Lust, and Blame

    Eye of hurricane,
  • Battle Hymn of the Republic

    God, could Kieran sing!—
  • In the Next Life and The Office of Apology

    When I become the most trusted translator of your poems
  • The Cormorant

    They slip the string