Poems

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  • Soup Teachers

    we called them, the women who stood behind
  • Song

    It wasn’t a goat’s head swaying in the tree. It was a ferret
  • The Dog Days of August and Elaine’s Story

    What huge effort to move through
  • The Beautiful Hand

    Not a word.
  • What if Cat Stevens was a dog person? | Thus, always to tryrants | The Seamstress

    Someone offered me an olive branch
  • ON HANDSHAKES

    There are firm ones.  Soft, almost boneless ones.  Hardy/hearty ones.  Two-handed ones, cocooning.  Congratulatory
  • Fifteen Essays on Boats, Boats, Language, and the SS

    The Palermo Airport is not large.
  • Q&A

    When you take off your mask, what is your true address
  • Fireworks or Gunfire?

    It’s just somebody sighting his gun—
  • The Romantic Poets

    If anybody needs a head
  • Three Poems

    His Majesty’s flock of Spanish sheep at Kew is most grievously afflicted...
  • Three Poems

    Lavishly robed and turbaned, the palmist