Poems

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  • TO HÉCTOR VIEL TEMPERLEY

    Cockroaches ignored the winter dawn
  • Melancholia & Trouble in Mind

    On the periodic table, it is the densest of elements. It does not refract or reflect, but absorbs all
  • The Wayfarer

    One must turn thoughts
  • My Lovely Garonne

    Because every tenth poem or so the poet described
  • A Brief Portfolio

    I meant to be talking of the huge cargo ship
  • A Terribly Sentimental Fork

    As unmined silver,
  • Brasserie and An Annunciation of Blue

    We’re somehow in Closerie des Lilas,
  • Sonnet for a Tall Flower Blooming at Dinnertime

    Southern Flower, I want to quote the bard,
  • Sister Dementia Remembers & Phone Booth

    Enough of bosom, ass, and pillow—
  • You Don’t Travel Light, Life

    is a cumbersome business.
  • Liebfraumilch, Scale and Season

    Our new son, fallen asleep
  • ELEGY WITH FULL DRESS BLUES

    Early in our marriage I would stand