Poems

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  • Four Square and Enthralled

    Mornings I’m grateful to my nightly self
  • Dentist, Mexico, 1959

    The room was big, not small.
  • Valediction in Guatemala

    We say goodbye in front
  • On the Grounds of the Zendo

    The face of the Buddha’s so smooth, she whispered,
  • I Can’t Tell If the Light Is Whispering “Loss” in My Ear or Imprinting Darkness on My Body

    At the last house,
  • Agreeable Subjects

    When a past father of mine makes an appearance
  • Objects in Mirror Are Larger than They Appear

    That beautiful girl on a bicycle smoking a cigarette:
  • Rune

    Not timber or bronze or iridium, not the old habits of species at a waterhole or the short
  • Movie and Two Little Miners

    When I was ten    they took me into a coal mine
  • On Chanukah

    Isn’t fire itself
  • NIGHT COMMUNION

    We met at the revolving hotel door. You’d shaved
  • from The Violet Blood of the Amethyst

    An exceptionally unhappy heart.