Poems

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  • GET ON YOUR PONY AND RIDE | BIG WHEEL

    You are under the impression that my poems
  • The Birthday Ceremony

    Seventeen rooms of long maroon
  • Wilhelmina Shakespeare

    Blond hair, blue eyes, buck teeth:  we taunted you
  • Ode to Scars

    The scars on others’ faces draw me to them.
  • PRESENTIMENTS

    Such as the sun might present—out of sight—
  • Seven Minutes with Afaa Weaver and Nancy Mitchell

    Were it not for his silver hair
  • To Manuel Bandeira | To Hilda Hilst | To Adélia Prado

    The girls are still   a d o r a b l e
  • Three Poems

    Our lives are so brief, she says,
  • Abbatoir Time

    The widower pushed the tailgate shut and fell.
  • YOUR PROBABILITY AMPLITUDE | A fragment from The Llatease of Homey, from a recently discovered Mycenaean text.

    I glance and
  • THE STREET

    Streaked and fretted with effort, the thick vine
  • Getting Old, Thinking of Keats

    Even though I’m old now