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Poems

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  • January and The Marrow

    Greetings from the first darkness,

  • Late Elegy for Charlotte

    You were about to sail the Seine.

  • On the Banks of the Allegheny

    We had started over again—

  • Three Poems

    Being adopted means I have choices on “The Meaning of Your Name”

  • Blue Rim

    Set the table with your heirloom

  • FOUNTAIN

    Dogwood white knuckle it through January, February, March:

  • A Brief Portfolio

    Faces pass by like unheard explanations

  • The Occupant Imagines the House as a Great Fish & Eight Things…

    It has already swallowed a century, each year a silver iridescent scale.  For eight, she has lived in its belly,

  • Vita Nova

    Born on the outskirts of the Romanian kingdom

  • The Shell

    When I picked it up from the sand

  • Hymn of the Squirrels, Echidna Tremens and Singled Out

    Not an issue of ‘variety’, of red, brown, grey and black,

  • ON HANDSHAKES

    There are firm ones.  Soft, almost boneless ones.  Hardy/hearty ones.  Two-handed ones, cocooning.  Congratulatory