Poems

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  • Here at the Scene

    How will I tell her particular tale
  • Once We Were

    once we were immigrants
  • Sea Otters, Missiles, Sardines

    Sea otters sun themselves on harbor rocks,
  • Two Departures from Rilke

    Terrified past panic, strict lines collapsed,
  • The Romantic Poets

    If anybody needs a head
  • Old Sweater | Alongside

    On November 21, in late afternoon, I open the bottom drawer of my bureau
  • My Name in Sticks

    From the shallow sledding hill I gathered up
  • Today’s Comedy

    Why Dante in summer?
  • The Podium

    He is bilious, potty-mouthed, at once puffy and rachitic. He sways, eyes red and rheumy as September strawberries.
  • The Injured Future

    Far left cluster the listeners, their heads lifted toward the speaker.
  • A Brief Portfolio

    By then I was leaving,
  • Cosmology

    Someone has spilled the moon