Poems

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  • Liquidation

    Final closeout, clearance sale, you said:
  • GDR CHINA | LAMB

    My housekeeper had the dishes brought
  • The Plumber is Here

    The plumber is here
  • Innocence

    The birds she could identify—nuthatch, oriole—
  • Two poems by Adélia Prado (from Miserere) translated from Brazilian Portuguese by Ellen Doré Watson

    On what might be called a street,
  • A Five-Years-Late Note to Jake Adam York

    In Chicago, where the light plows over the lake into convention
  • The Night Was Born

    This night was born in an old and dust-filled pantry, and yesterday’s – in the
  • Pink is the Navy Blue of India

    Flea market guy tells me the pornos are five dollars
  • Happy Hour

    I wasn’t supposed to touch the two glazed ceramic turtles
  • VISITORS

    Having just arrived, we are walked down a moonless
  • Riding the Metro-North New Haven Line and Black Mountain Music

    The question is what kind of sausage are they—
  • N32P28

    Do not treasure or belittle,