Poems

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  • After Reading Charles Wright I Turn Out the Light and Listen to the Rain

    Protestant American darkness
  • Innocence

    The birds she could identify—nuthatch, oriole—
  • The Insurgency of Tears is to Eradicate Sadness and Hold Joy as Close as the Moon

    Mike’s at The Whitney.
  • Invitation

    Go now to the silence. It has longed for you
  • The Little Engine

    He is not an engine that could. Busted up, broken and backward, call him “fucked-up,”
  • Trespass and Dante Confidential

    That is not your poem to write, she says.
  • The Charter of Effects

    Counsel is a lawyer driven by money.
  • An Oracle

    Why does the line end sooner than the page?
  • The Shadow of Love

    A man falls in love with a shadow
  • LEONTES

    Elusive, but only sweetened by
  • Two Poems

    To hunker
  • Soup Teachers

    we called them, the women who stood behind