Poems

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  • The Latch

    One sound, the click of the latch on the gate,
  • November

    Hours ago I was walking with my dog down
  • YOUR PROBABILITY AMPLITUDE | A fragment from The Llatease of Homey, from a recently discovered Mycenaean text.

    I glance and
  • Centers of Gold, Aphrodisiacal & What We Do Lives On

    The point, after all, with canvas, brush, and paint,
  • Given Plums

    Early July my sister and I filled two sacks of plums from our orchard. We shook each tree until the ripest orbs fell
  • HOUSEKEEPING:  Frida’s Future Kiss

    After the palm reader told her no man would ever claim her,
  • A Brief Portfolio

    “Oh, darling in the distance
  • The Night Dancers

    Praise the shadows that slither up candlelit walls
  • Four Poems

    A sudden pain flares in in my head like a match flaring into darkness: my mother is dying.
  • A Brief Portfolio

    Autumn again, and I side with Szymborska
  • St. Bonaventure and Spring Birthday Romance

    Merton’s last stop in the world
  • About Tea translated from Czech by Stephan Delbos

    before we set out let’s promise each other