Poems

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  • SUNDAY LUNCH AT MOM’S COUSIN DINNIE’S: JUNE 1969 | “ELEGANT,” SHE SAID

    I hadn't yet recovered from a concussive first year teaching ninth-grade English
  • Human Condition

    The human condition isn’t some grinning
  • An Oracle

    Why does the line end sooner than the page?
  • Aperol-Spritz | Padua

    Across the river from the Grossmünster
  • EPHEBE WITH CYPRIPEDIUM

    Sweet ephebe, dear good friend,
  • Back in the U.S.S.R

    We weren’t the Beach Boys’ California girls,
  • Uplight

    The uplight is where I want to be, above and looking, and looking over.
  • Three Ibises in the Rain

    That’s how it was early this morning--
  • New Math

    Out of the place I knew,
  • Obit

    At this beat-up plywood slab across the beat-up
  • A Brief Portfolio

    When the light goes out, and the book is set down
  • Caroline

    One day they took him in a car all over the country and he