Poems

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  • Three Poems and a Translation

    In life I was chasing a deer. In sleep the deer
  • Three Poems translated from Spanish by John R. Sesgo 

    Look at it right there
  • Lightning Streak of White

    Black streets, black sky with orchid clouds.
  • Olympia

    The ancient Greeks knew how to pick out a sacred spot,
  • Bodies on the Margins

    The artist understands blood; or rather
  • Two Poems

    Late afternoon, crows still at gossip
  • Two poems from “The Mistaken Place of Things”

    How to say hair
  • Feasts for the Blind | My Dear Menshevik

    That year it rained crows. Birds fell out of the sky in midflight.
  • A Brief Portfolio: Heaney in an Irish Pub & Other Poems

    Heaney in an Irish Pub, Washington, DC, Hunger, In the Bishop's Garden:  Hide and Seek and Lost in China
  • Things forgotten

    once in another city,
  • Agnus Dei, Winslow Wants a Gun, Omega Street

    The shearer’s come horse-back from Solo –
  • As So Often Happens | Twenty-two Years Later

    As so often happens, in the middle