Poems

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  • Obit

    At this beat-up plywood slab across the beat-up
  • An Island

    Toward the end of the island
  • Hail to Thee,

    I write, my wrist nodding
  • NOTES ON SILENCE

    The racket of birdsong wakes me at 4am, before first light.
  • The Cricket

    You too have risen at midnight
  • The Big Blow

    After the snow-soused April gale I wandered
  • Nudes I & II

    Once she crosses the threshold
  • Wozzeck | Casualty

    Even the toneless whisper finds its cradle, its home,
  • Cache

    Here lies a hectic site, la Cité
  • The Recognizable |  Poem Beginning with a Line by C. Dale Young

    Like when an irresistible force
  • On Chanukah

    Isn’t fire itself
  • You Don’t Drink Wine? and I Tremble: Two poems by Rumi

    What? You don’t drink wine? Infidel, begone!