Poems

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  • Babel of Signs

    Skirting the coast desperate for fresh food
  • How Sad

    Their kisses were bitterly thin,
  • Mnemonic

    Leaves in the eaves
  • Photographs, 1949 | Retiree

    In one, they pose, grinning straight at the Kodak,
  • Four From Delos

    Saw the ring of her
  • Echo (and Narcissus)

    I saw it in midcentury
  • The Age of the Onion

    The onion is a Book of Revelations, diced to proverb-size.
  • Loosestrife

    The cities changed hands. In the course
  • Fox and Piñata

    I saw my first movie
  • What, Me?

    When we’re in a car together I worry we’ll die and the world will lose its role models.
  • Fish Belly Poem and a poem by Wang Yuyang translated by Arthur Sze

    Dr. Xia Kejun said today:
  • Poet’s Walk, Central Park Mall

    Shakespeare, Robert Burns, and Fitz-Greene Halleck