Poems

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  • Yet Another Life

    And then one day I was no longer up
  • Were We So Fragile?

    What promises didn’t you deliver, beautiful Life!
  • JANUARY

    This longing for him the choke in my throat again —
  • Dream Vision of Theodore Roethke

    door to heaven? portal of wheres in a modern mound.
  • Mid-March

    If, when I sit here in my study
  • Others & Kents

    They stopped the car on the crest of Coleman Valley Road to show his sister and her husband the Pacific view.
  • Potato | The Surface

    I do not want to finish my potato,
  • Two poems by Jan Wagner translated from German by David Keplinger 

    when you are digging in the wardrobe
  • Two Poems

    For the second time, yet not the last, in this
  • Shooting Pool in the Mental Hospital

    Because memory is not the hovering bank shot that stops at the lip
  • Flour, Eggs, Milk, Baking Powder, Salt and God

    O Best Beloved, tell me, if you know, why—
  • Bed

    I haven’t got a fingernail or bed