Poems

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  • My Father Was a Honey Bee

    My father was a honey bee He buzzed and buzzed
  • January in West Texas

    Once, I preferred nights. How they arrived one tied to the next like silk scarves, knots of daylight between them. I
  • At sunset translated from Spanish by Paula J. Lambert

    the dragonfly perches on the river waiting for a breeze
  • Storm Song, Monarch, Sultry Night and Galveston, 1900

    Last night heat
  • Rondeau and Song

    She would have yawned to see a Pharaoh’s fall,
  • Purge

    The Aryan Jesus, in Hitler’s painting
  • NIGHT COMMUNION

    We met at the revolving hotel door. You’d shaved
  • Fifteen Essays on Boats, Boats, Language, and the SS

    The Palermo Airport is not large.
  • FIREFLIES

    Evenings when the children
  • Hail to Thee,

    I write, my wrist nodding
  • Plastic Bag Caught in a Tree

    Some dark animal’s
  • For Those Whose Lives Have Seen Themselves

    Welcome all who have traveled the long road