Poems

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  • Preludes and Fugues, Cycle C

    Watch your cat leap up in fright and flee
  • Urban Renewal

    Outside my window, a brutal winter burn has curled
  • Museling, a Pastoral

    I’m reading a poem by a young woman,
  • Two Poems

    For the second time, yet not the last, in this
  • One of a Series

    My daughter sees the sky from another angle, slate-blue reflected in a lake called living. 
  • America

    America, I have a friend for whom everything went south
  • Cento for the Turn of the Year

    Assume nothing. Take a position:
  • THE INVENTION OF FIRE

    In “Burning of three witches in Baden, Switzerland,” dated to 1585, three women lie on a large pyre watched by a circle of men.
  • SHINE, NOT BURN

    Just at that point
  • Shin Issues | Flash Flood

    Probably you have shins.
  • The Hardworking Man

    On the island where I grew up, the hardworking man is the ideal man.  The
  • Honor Guard

    Who does this body