Poems

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  • I’m Not Waiting and Out of the Past

    I’m no longer waiting for the dunes of Tulum,
  • The Dragonfly

    Diamond-crusted wings flying an armored syringe
  • From “The Last Letter of My Body”, translated from Russian by Anne O. Fisher

    it’s winter here: the winter rains come, the roses bloom
  • Edinburgh University Anatomical Collection

    Take shelter awhile from mortality
  • Deciduous (Evening in a Polar Vortex)

    Blanket, you hear, means to cover,
  • May Cause

    Tinnitus, uncharacteristic
  • the ugly purple corpse I lug behind me | you haven’t changed a bit

    the ugly purple corpse I lug behind me
  • My Obituary

    Will it merit a full column in The Post or The Times
  • Nature

    Looking through trees strangely into nature.
  • Two Poems

    There was intent. To bisect the fields
  • From Toying

    Like Tiny Tears
  • Two poems by Jan Wagner translated from German by David Keplinger 

    when you are digging in the wardrobe