Poems

Sort By: Date Title First Line Random Index

  • NOTES ON SILENCE

    The racket of birdsong wakes me at 4am, before first light.
  • Prizefighting

    $25 Cleaning Fee
  • Poems ‘From Ruins and Other Poems’ translated from Arabic by Huda J. Fakhreddine

    Something awakens amputated.
  • A Meeting

    Of all the disappointments
  • The Caravaggio Room

    Yuck, you heave in front of that sick boy
  • High Finance

    You looked up and saw across the field
  • It’s Not Your Fault

    The brass lamp in your window,
  • A Few Years After a Death

    Toward sunfall, when I begin to count
  • Cotton Candy

    At first it gives like a sponge, elastically, and you think you’ll only make an
  • The Definition of Postmodernism & If

    I was in David Lehman’s Modern Poetry class when I first heard the term “postmodernism.”
  • The Last Plume Poems

    the year that is when Churchill begged
  • George Orwell Sucks

    How can a word evocative of so much pleasure,. both adult and infantile, find itself used – by almost everybody – in