Poems

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  • Untitled

    But here in the city there are signs and crowds in the street
  • Masque

    Lamplight blue cushions
  • The All-Overs, This is Where God Stays When He’s in Town and Mr. Jackson’s Killer

    I like words like gallimaufry, tawdry, billingsgate—braggadocio! Rodomontade.
  • Poem with Allusions

    The thoughts that come on little cat feet
  • Shaft of Light

    Smile behind the lips
  • Three Poems

    Lavishly robed and turbaned, the palmist
  • Mr. Blake’s Skin Don’t Dirt

    Because the vanishing point hovers
  • Glare

    It just goes so fast,
  • The Reckoning and 3AM

    Shadows stretch across the pine floor
  • Old, Two, Not, Wrote

    letters to an old poet
  • Half the Time

    In an emergency
  • Don’t Pick the Cherries Yet

    Don’t pick the cherries yet—