Poems

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  • Eros Caught Napping

    Eros at one time or another in the era before
  • The World As Sound

    I didn’t speak until I was five
  • Edinburgh University Anatomical Collection

    Take shelter awhile from mortality
  • Hyphen

    Blue-black on my inked page,
  • In a Pile of Pictures

    The man—young enough to be my son—
  • Chekhov’s Gun

    Atonement means nothing to a cook
  • Three Fascinations

    to wake to an alarm
  • Close to now

    I should have said from the beginning that I plant the black nasturtiums because they are the saddest
  • From Rainer Maria Rilke’s Die Sonette an Orpheus / The Sonnets to Orpheus translated from German by John Rosenwald

    O fountain-mouth, you gift-giver, you mouth
  • Summer circa 1967-2xxx

    My mother & the other ladies
  • Alexandru (1904 – 1984)

    You cross the hill by wagon to Românești. Airplanes stretch ropes of milk in our way not unlike the wire you’d
  • The Uncanny

    Suppose a rational man