Poems

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  • A Brief Portfolio

    Shoulders slouched, neck one step ahead of her body,
  • Phone Call: Lesson in Style and The Story of Civilization

    “Everything feels all swollen and puffy, like my brain
  • Crucifixion

    One minute he’s looking at you, full-size, in anguish,
  • from Sleeping with Bashō

    Growing out of clouds like a cedar tree—
  • spattered measure

    what beauty O sad world through answers
  • A Brief Portfolio: Heaney in an Irish Pub & Other Poems

    Heaney in an Irish Pub, Washington, DC, Hunger, In the Bishop's Garden:  Hide and Seek and Lost in China
  • Bear Sometimes Thinks He’s Dead & Shelf Life

    But lately he’s observed the Hermit Thrush
  • IN PROFILE

    Words hung into silence
  • Poor Fish

    I saw the loser in 3-card Monte
  • Hymn of the Squirrels, Echidna Tremens and Singled Out

    Not an issue of ‘variety’, of red, brown, grey and black,
  • IX. Ophelia’s Garden | III. Tears

    After the turtle shook the world from its shell,
  • Perspective and Day Sex Ode

    I have often confused the expression center of gravity, first