Poems

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  • EASTHAM TURNIPS, ROUTE 6, NOVEMBER

    Honor System, the sign tacked to a scrub oak said,
  • The Rehearsal

    At our first duo rehearsal—Bach’s B-
  • Like Body

    one light series    discrete
  • I Dreamed of Obama on the Night of His First Election

    He stirred the coals of my dwindling campfire. We were alone. Blue tendrils of smoke punctuated the Mesozoic haze
  • Bunch of Asparagus and Asparagus

    Bundle on a wet bed
  • The Old Pythagorean | Wish You Were Here

    The Scottish sheep farmer John Williamson espoused the Pythagorean doctrine of metempsychosis, which held that
  • Nail tr. by Anita Gopalan

    A piece of heart that doesn’t pain on breaking
  • Poems ‘From Ruins and Other Poems’ translated from Arabic by Huda J. Fakhreddine

    Something awakens amputated.
  • Food of Love & Thing-in-Itself

    If the vamp and rub of planets,
  • knell & i object i object i object

    the chit-a’click-chit of a squirrel
  • The Last Widow | The Last Mirror

    The last widow misses men. The last widow misses her husband
  • Three Ballerinas & Blue Plaques

    After the war, my father bought three little porcelain figurines in Germany, three