Poems

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  • Henry’s Song

    Sometimes sitting in a friend's backyard on a fall evening
  • Ten Days After the Dobbs Decision

    The possum loped into view, pouch dragging slow
  • Hanging the Dirty Laundry

    Father's ties were mother’s noose
  • On a Version of “Lady with Lapdog” | Synch

    How clever, to leave out all the articles, thereby suggesting their story, their plight, were less a story than a portrait
  • Will flames lap? Leap? | The Country Stairs

    Will flames lap? Leap?
  • Sestina for an Idiom

    I was fifteen and all fights with my father ended
  • Idea for a Screenplay *

    A man sits on his porch and reads aloud to the yard, to some plants and to some birds, his feelings of paranoia, anger
  • No Heaven for the King

    Always in the faintest glow of pleasure, and always
  • To Urania

    Astronomer who rules the tides and skies,
  • Spell

    Unlikely find in a thrift store’s back bin:
  • I Offer This Container

    Monkeys of fresh rage born again—
  • Beautiful Worry

    this wan light, spaghetti-thin, uneases