Poems

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  • Insomnia, A Love Story

    Everybody sleeps.  Our poem starts with that premise.
  • A Date With an Undertaker

    He liked to bathe, dress,
  • Endecasyllabics: About the Women (Alma, Ruthie)

    The lion-maned poet holds court on our blue
  • from The Violet Blood of the Amethyst

    An exceptionally unhappy heart.
  • Olympia

    The ancient Greeks knew how to pick out a sacred spot,
  • At the End of the Alphabet

    Books bloated and fanned
  • Three Poems

    It’s good to see him young again,
  • Quickies in Widowhood with three instances of laughter (one not narrated), two instances of crying

    Amid the whiteness of cheeses, corn puffs,
  • Always a Woman, a War, or a Lost Cause

    That hunched those men over Zorro’s
  • Received Wisdom

    A horse fence
  • Remnant Tongue

    I woke wounded
  • Two poems by Krystyna Lenkowska translated from Polish by Cecilia Woloch

    When I was young