Poems

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  • Sestina for an Idiom

    I was fifteen and all fights with my father ended
  • Down by the River

    Down by the river behind the barn
  • Love Talk | On the Way to the Casinos

    What the boy heard his older sister say—
  • Therapon, III, 5 

    …you whose waters never breathe   whose
  • Spelling / Complication

    Serious injuries only!   Strange
  • The Lost Explorers

    Give me the lost explorers, the last-seens,
  • Bed

    I haven’t got a fingernail or bed
  • YOUR PROBABILITY AMPLITUDE | A fragment from The Llatease of Homey, from a recently discovered Mycenaean text.

    I glance and
  • A Demitasse of Extinction

    So funny how that uncanny, unfunny man sought you out on a rainy day in Istanbul—you were in earshot of the bazaar and smoking a hookah, and, of course, it was Ramadan.
  • Drink with Mountain, Remembered, Andalucían

    The rosé from Spain
  • Other Minds and While

    For each word
  • Spit

    Some progress is anything but.