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Poems

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  • Henry’s Song

    Sometimes sitting in a friend's backyard on a fall evening

  • Redeye | The Window’s Water

    that never sets,

  • Poems translated from Romanian by Monica Cure

    Adila watches as evening falls

  • Uncle

    Here is the man who tells you

  • PRESENTIMENTS

    Such as the sun might present—out of sight—

  • HOUSEKEEPING:  Frida’s Future Kiss

    After the palm reader told her no man would ever claim her,

  • A Five-Years-Late Note to Jake Adam York

    In Chicago, where the light plows over the lake into convention

  • At the End of the Alphabet

    Books bloated and fanned

  • In a Pile of Pictures

    The man—young enough to be my son—

  • First Communion, forty-two and the unnamed

    I shall sit here, on this bench,

  • Earth, Temple, Gods

    A woman's feet, in lace-up sandals made of stone.

  • From “The Last Letter of My Body”, translated from Russian by Anne O. Fisher

    it’s winter here: the winter rains come, the roses bloom