Poems

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  • Virginia Woolf: Three Fragments (1910)

    i.How much must we carry with us? Must we bear the souls of errand boys, drovers, butchers in bloody smocks, the
  • BOOK OF HOURS

    A jostle of stars at the edge of the Crab Nebula pinpoints the heart of Taurus. Under the right conditions, with a
  • The Trolley

    It was stuck and what with rationing and brownouts
  • Where the Robins Took Me and Northern Flicker

    Robins settle on the earth
  • Three Poems

    “Today we shall begin discussing Longinus’ treatise On the Sublime.”
  • Wilderness

    The mind is a wilderness like Bartram’s, razed, cemented over, marked by rows
  • From Toying

    Like Tiny Tears
  • That’s How We Met translated by Chenxin Jiang

    If only I didn’t have to grow up
  • Tattoos | Tattoos

    They come with stories. Like the woman whose thorny twist
  • grief being a swatch of blue & grief being that song from childhood & grief being a pitched tent

    a rectangle in an unborn son’s room
  • Puritan Watc, Yonder and Birthday

    Longitude was the great mystery
  • “Bird or Old Man” translated from Bulgarian by Holly Karapetkova 

    He arrived with a bag full of fog.