Poems

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  • The Harrow Plow

    Each spring it sank a little further down
  • Don’t Pick the Cherries Yet

    Don’t pick the cherries yet—
  • Three Poems

    His Majesty’s flock of Spanish sheep at Kew is most grievously afflicted...
  • Questions for Fruit Flies and The Habit of Longing

    Humble as fruit flies may seem, they . . . engage in a host of complex behaviors
  • Horoscope and American Upanishad

    Two hearts can charge the moment they meet,
  • Three Poems

    “Today we shall begin discussing Longinus’ treatise On the Sublime.”
  • Without You

    I was doing just fine, a job, a home,
  • Little Black Dress and Julia

    Puddled at my feet or ruched
  • From Bajo la lluvia ajena (In Foreign Rain) by Juan Gelman, translated by Lisa Rose Bradford

    On the tiers of experience.
  • Vocal

    Outgrown, the prairie lot
  • Electric Eyes of Night

    Three lanterns fill your window with deception.
  • Of Course

    If I wake at 3, ephemerality