Poems

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  • LOOKING AT DAD

    To see my father not seeing me with
  • Memorial Bench

    Suzanne and Half Zantop loved sitting here—
  • Tom’s Sublet and Without Longing, What?

    Once, a long time ago in Rome, I was bathed
  • 05-08 | 07-03 | 07-24 Three from The Ringing of the Rain has a Forgiving Grace

    We all become the raindrops’ filling in the blanks
  • Bodies on the Margins

    The artist understands blood; or rather
  • Logs

    Giants lie entangled on wet sand,
  • St. Rose of Lima

    Lips weary with chapped hallelujahs,
  • Why I Hate Nudist Camps

    Wayne had already flung off his t-shirt, pulled off his black Khakis to set up our tent—I can work faster if I'm naked
  • Fret Not

    Opening the door for the first time since
  • Volumes

    Certain mornings you can catch the sound
  • Isle of the Narrator

    It's true these boots were taken from a dead man,
  • Phone Call: Lesson in Style and The Story of Civilization

    “Everything feels all swollen and puffy, like my brain