Poems

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  • Beautiful Worry

    this wan light, spaghetti-thin, uneases
  • A Poem Translated from Greek by Alex de Voogt

    He went inside the café     where they would go together.
  • The Easy Way to Stop Drinking

    We are as flies in a pitcher plant,
  • Alone at 77 & I Arrive at the Scene

    Unhungry, he cracks a single egg.
  • A VARIATION | MY MOTHER BEFORE SHE DIED | HART CRANE

    Why ask to know, twin and neighbor,
  • Imaginary Conversation | In the Orchard

    You tell me to live each day
  • The Names

    My student Natasha, who is Greek but is now living in Turkey,
  • WINDOWS (after Baudelaire)

    You never see as much in an open window as you will looking at it when it’s closed. 
  • Jerez translated from Spanish by Susan Ayres

    Perhaps his hand was not so cold
  • Three Poems by Abba Kovner translated from Hebrew by Rachel Neve-Midbar

    I am not holding a mirage
  • Fret Not

    Opening the door for the first time since
  • From Blue as White (The Book of Margins) by Helga Landauer-Olshvang |

    Get out alive – spine, spleen, whole