Poems

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  • My Shame & Sanctuary

    At first that howl suggests an overbearing parent
  • AS IN A SACK | STILL HEARD | BREATH THEY COULDN’T

    AS IN A SACK held shut by cord,
  • On Beauty and To the Phaistos Disc

    I have a tree outside my house. I don’t know what kind—in spring, it blooms, gorgeous.
  • Stone Cross

    Remember your village of always uphill,
  • Invitation to the Dance and Pieces of us Keep Breaking Off

    In the summer of 1949, Jacques d’Amboise found himself in a clash with a bully
  • Ars Poetica

    The shell of the papershell pecan can easily be broken
  • Crow Poison

    stumbled drunkenly
  • The Wind Cried Mary  

    In 1967 when Hendrix coaxed, Are you experienced?
  • when you ask me if you are a good father & cook up meets god

    look     we know how this will play out
  • Gertrude Suite, [Mechthild Says God is a Bell] & Lazarus

    Semantic, in the way that interruption is semantic.
  • PET SOUNDS

    The summer I bought Pet Sounds at G.C. Murphy’s, I hadn’t gone a block from the store when on impulse I smashed
  • Monk’s Eye, #20

    Of all rhythms he found day and night