Poems

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  • Breakfast, the most important poem

    So far, pockets are good
  • Solstice, Seven Questions (Private/Public) & A Fable

    blood on a slide--thumbprint in a pool--
  • The Death of Erik Satie

    The arches aspire to points
  • DINNER AT LYNN AND LINDA’S WITH KEN AND JACK

    Dinner tonight with two married gay couples
  • Two poems translated from the Ukrainian by Jessica Zychowicz & Cecilia Woloch

    As I was exiting with the baby stroller
  • Apologetics

    A host of angels or a compass of cherubim
  • Bartosz Konstrat translated from Polish by Dawid Mobolaji

    Suddenly: bam! The little boys rise from their knees, their teeth grow and begin to bite.
  • MORE THAN I CAN SAY

    Clewell doesn’t exactly do haiku.
  • Building the Boat, Trèboul (1930)

    Half-way, the basket nature of the ship
  • A Brief Portfolio

    Autumn again, and I side with Szymborska
  • Ode to Cabeza de Vaca

    What good is it to see for miles and miles,
  • Yellowphant and Don’t Forget

    The circus so yellow and red stands on two feet,