Poems

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  • Becoming Hat

    When in Rockport— with Rockport—
  • GET ON YOUR PONY AND RIDE | BIG WHEEL

    You are under the impression that my poems
  • From Rainer Maria Rilke’s Die Sonette an Orpheus / The Sonnets to Orpheus translated from German by John Rosenwald

    O fountain-mouth, you gift-giver, you mouth
  • naked dreaming

    an artist friend once told me
  • PRESENTIMENTS

    Such as the sun might present—out of sight—
  • It Happened All the Time

    Daylight shatters through the thatches where a bird might fall,
  • Fragments of The Sacrificial World

    Porpoises feed every morning in the shallows
  • The One Crying in English Class

    From time to time, I still get angry
  • The Sailor’s Love Song and Irish Whiskey

    When I was young I burned to be
  • Sea Otters, Missiles, Sardines

    Sea otters sun themselves on harbor rocks,
  • Halfway Through Civilization, Late to Another

    meeting for grown-ups, i hurry across campus,
  • Regular Arithmetic

    My sister says, all men are insecure,