Poems

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  • What is Pleasure

    The supreme pleasure of love
  • A Brief Portfolio

    have heard through some trembling of their web
  • Painting

    all things look as if
  • The Host of Turns

    We were gathered in this kind of circus-tent,
  • “Recipe for Indifference” translated from the Slovenian by Brian Henry

    We saw them, hungry, and spoke
  • In the Late Style of Eros

    Loneliness is a female shark
  • “The Walnut and Honey Cookies” translated from Romanian by Clara Burghelea

    I am a Kurdish refugee who, for over a decade,
  • “Denise to the Rescue” and “Needs Art”

    Hello, this is Denise, your Poem Advocate DO NOT
  • Hapax Legomenon

    Literally “thing said once,
  • Crow Poison

    stumbled drunkenly
  • Elegy for My Grandmother in the Form of a Cactus

    The way each linked lobe of your cactus swallows all
  • Geese

    More dream now than memory, though memory is all it is: after an early dinner, I’m dropping them off at their