Poems

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  • “Bird or Old Man” translated from Bulgarian by Holly Karapetkova 

    He arrived with a bag full of fog.
  • Paean for the Players

    The pale actor’s mouth
  • from Landscapes on a Train

    There once was a church. There once was a steeple. These things fall into
  • The Wayfarer

    When the wings of the triptych are open as
  • A History of Mirrors

    We’ve accidentally collided with something real tonight
  • Other Minds and While

    For each word
  • The Occupant Imagines the House as a Great Fish & Eight Things…

    It has already swallowed a century, each year a silver iridescent scale.  For eight, she has lived in its belly,
  • Ars Poetica, with Cow

    She went back to look at the beast, which lay immobile except for one eye watching the girl who stood helpless beside
  • Ghazal with Bread

    how many summers apart from you, in search of bread
  • Boots and Bayonet

    My platoon a loose group cross-legged
  • What God Says | Creek

    What you don’t know is that when you lay
  • The Willows in Winter in the Boston Public Garden

    In the sun’s white