Poems

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  • A Brief Portfolio

    Like conifers in the Bois de Boulogne where he would walk
  • Drink with Mountain, Remembered, Andalucían

    The rosé from Spain
  • Family Way

    In my family, when any one of the women of my grandmother’s generation dreamt of fish she would get on the phone to
  • Three Orgasm Poems

    She thinks success would be her best revenge. It’s not enough for her now, merely to be alive. Or to feel bliss in brief
  • Stairway

    In those days, so many stairways were said to lead to happiness, mainly of a sexual kind—and as I climbed those
  • Because What Else Could I Do

    I alone in a restaurant
  • Late Portrait

    Dried flowers everywhere. Greeting cards. China plates hung on walls, showing a
  • A Prayer

    Praise the scent of wood
  • KINDNESS DETECTOR | TRUTH IN ADVERTISING |

    It looks like a bamboo flute, but has a motor that draws air across a copper plate treated with chemicals which,
  • Letter to a Cyclist and Early Spring

    The cyclist who’s rushing for the usual gold
  • It was never he, | One might say I’ve fulfilled the miserable obligation of constructing myself.

    It was never he,
  • Three poems from The Abduction by Maram Al-Masri, translated from French by Hélène Cardona

    I hugged him