Poems

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  • Ghazal, After Ferguson

    Somebody go & ask Biggie to orate
  • Flight, Ours & A Burn So Bad It Requires Ice

    We’re in bad, we’re in terrible, shape
  • Stairway

    In those days, so many stairways were said to lead to happiness, mainly of a sexual kind—and as I climbed those
  • First Communion, forty-two and the unnamed

    I shall sit here, on this bench,
  • Questions for Fruit Flies and The Habit of Longing

    Humble as fruit flies may seem, they . . . engage in a host of complex behaviors
  • Poem for Shang Qin

    I’ve been digging my way toward you since the day I was born. I watch the
  • Pink is the Navy Blue of India

    Flea market guy tells me the pornos are five dollars
  • Bookish | Brush Your Fingers Through Your Hair, Why Don’t You?

    The bookishness that
  • The Mending Wall

    No one noticed as I left both the tour group
  • Piano Epistemology, Apostrophes and Beauty

    I’m pretty sure this piano exists,
  • Picasso & Dora Maar (1942)

    Four decades I have lived among the French
  • Nice Dark One

    Yours is a noble bio, one note