Poems

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  • To Fire

    In my backyard, huddled over my magnifying
  • Vesper

    The sky is blue for reasons other than atmospheric ones.
  • Back in the U.S.S.R

    We weren’t the Beach Boys’ California girls,
  • Sestina

    The time is naturally over. It is another morning. Lie
  • Bosnia, Kentucky

    Court documents say her name is Azra Bašic. In 1992, twin knives
  • Last Words

    If only for those you leave behind,
  • Light and Dark

    I like that the word light is powerful and yet so gentle, like a good man.
  • Florida

    Every beauty barbed, from the tiniest mites
  • ALERT

    My phone sends me an alert:
  • Lives of the Postmodern Poets

    You were born too late.
  • Sister Dementia Remembers & Phone Booth

    Enough of bosom, ass, and pillow—
  • POSTCARD WITH A CITY’S AERIAL VIEW AT NIGHT

    To think that each lit window there