Poems

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  • The Killing

    While Abraham binds his son’s hands,
  • Poet’s Walk, Central Park Mall

    Shakespeare, Robert Burns, and Fitz-Greene Halleck
  • Seesaw

    The sun was overhead. The playground steamed.
  • Hunger Abstract

    A black cat
  • Thinly Veiled

    In Alabama I learnt the difference between the state flag and the battle flag
  • NIGHT COMMUNION

    We met at the revolving hotel door. You’d shaved
  • Photographs, 1949 | Retiree

    In one, they pose, grinning straight at the Kodak,
  • A Provisional Topography | One of the Many Stories of Sounds | Sooner or Later

    On the Weichsel River, before the war. You see
  • Father and Analysand

    Shy in houndstooth, white hair and a smoke
  • To Isabella Franconati

    After your husband died and the cypress trees,
  • Found Poem: “Swelling Anti-Asian Violence: Who Is Being Attacked Where,” NYT, April 3, 2021 

    Queens | A 47-year-old man and his 10-year-old son
  • Snow and Minerals

    Rouge. It’s not a rose, it’s rouge.