Poems

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  • Confession Therapy and Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

    One summer, as I was cleaning out the grooves in my palm, I was living in a monastery.
  • Across the Wide Missouri

    It’s toward the end of the season.
  • Mass on the Beach

    I’m trying not to wonder if the priest
  • PRESENTIMENTS

    Such as the sun might present—out of sight—
  • Posthumous Cabin

    And got away to it, and left the work to others
  • Carpe Diem

    You won't live
  • Indian River at Dusk

    The first and only time I caught a sheephead
  • from Border Crossings

    On dark nights when I have no words of my
  • LIMESTONE GHAZAL

    My windowsill’s lined with fossils, whorled limestone
  • Three Poems

    I dropped a sprig of laurel into your grave
  • Ultimatum

    If I forget one character a day
  • An Island

    Toward the end of the island