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Poems

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  • Pedestrian Interval

    The trick in all of this is to build well--

  • Were We So Fragile?

    What promises didn’t you deliver, beautiful Life!

  • We Came This Way to Know the Evening

    Here’s a riddle:

  • FAMILY BATTLES | WITCH

    My uncle stares at the TV throughout

  • A Woman in Damascus That Year | While She’s Asleep In Baghdad

    Her soul’s in my hand and she knows I’m there

  • Beautiful Worry

    this wan light, spaghetti-thin, uneases

  • from Devil Mutant Child

    Exactly the hair I wanted,

  • True West

    We return by foot from pre-plantation oaks,

  • I’ll Hang Around as Long as You Will Let Me

    John Prine is dead on TV in the season before trees bear peaches

  • Milk Ice

    Driving through fog and storm’s aftermath

  • From a Bench at MOMA

    Don’t wanna, don’t wanna,

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

    He arrived with a bag full of fog.