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Poems

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  • So Glad She Didn’t Live to See It

    What will it be, the thing they say

  • End of the Century

    We’ve slept too long, and that hasn’t stopped the incidental warping—

  • Beginning and Whatever Doesn’t Kill Your Mother Makes Her Stronger

    One of the first days my mom’s in the ICU, I try to describe

  • Music Class | Hymnals and Revivals

    Kids learned to play

  • Duets

    Telemann at 7:30 on an evening

  • Why I’m Here | Unbearable

    Why I'm Here

  • Love Talk | On the Way to the Casinos

    What the boy heard his older sister say—

  • Almost Nightfall

    City lovely in its concocted dream, there

  • Drinking, Failure and Erotics

    Easing from fixed to felt, mellow waves of breeze, the lean

  • Eggs

    Eggs in the cakes invoked by Marie Antoinette.

  • More Reason

    Though you may be a scribe in ancient Egypt

  • Sitting on an Old Bedspread Under an Oak Tree, Watching My Son’s Soccer Practice

    For reasons I can’t explain