Poems

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  • A Sampler

    As you hold your breath, like a watchman waiting for sunrise. Let’s replace immediacy with a swift cataclysm, replace
  • Into the Flame

    And you lay for decades counting sheep
  • N33P14 and N33P29

    Cloud cover
  • America

    America, I have a friend for whom everything went south
  • Hurricane: Hera | Squall: Echo

    You never hear of Ixion, tied to a revolving wheel,
  • The House

    With stained red awnings
  • Throne Verse

    Two years of cinders built up in the hearth,
  • THE FLOWER AT THE END OF THE WORLD

    It was a 1954 Ford pickup truck that stopped
  • Early Christianity: A Poem | Rome

    OK, says James, let them keep their foreskins.
  • The Last Plume Poems

    the year that is when Churchill begged
  • The Next Life and Windpowered

    Sea fog drifting through the pines—
  • OVER THE MOON

    Five a.m.—the soft percussion of the rain