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Poems

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  • She Painted Artichokes

    You had nothing to say so you painted some splendid artichokes

  • Who Will Plant the Seeds of Svalbard and Orchard Fruit: Grafting

    as far north you go     as night you go night 

  • The NewMath and Nor Easter

    There may still be time to find the cosine of x. Under an à la mode

  • A Progressive Disease

    I feel my body getting away from me,

  • Voyager parable and Parable of the Little Ghost

    Today I am downhearted meaning sunken meaning mired

  • My Polish and Another Poem

    When I try to thank it, it shushes me. Then illuminates my way to the Exit.

  • The Lesson

    It seems to me you don’t dare express yourself

  • Qinghai and Tengchong

    a prayer flag rolls around a heap of round stones

  • Letter to a Young Orgasm | Elegy for the Last Orgasm | The Orgasm and the Magic Maid

    How could she not cry out when you pressed her to your flesh?

  • Notes on Desire

    Archytas of Tarentum said the most fatal curse

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

    He arrived with a bag full of fog.

  • The Dog Days of August and Elaine’s Story

    What huge effort to move through