Poems

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  • Movie and Two Little Miners

    When I was ten    they took me into a coal mine
  • A VARIATION | MY MOTHER BEFORE SHE DIED | HART CRANE

    Why ask to know, twin and neighbor,
  • Three Poems

    “Today we shall begin discussing Longinus’ treatise On the Sublime.”
  • Possibility of Erasure | There Are Corpses Buried in Them

    It is snowing this morning.
  • Mother of Invention | The Butcher Coat

    Who first fashioned fishnet stocking
  • Three More Claims to Fame

    Claim to Fame #7 :  Early Boyfriend
  • Two poems by Adélia Prado (from Miserere) translated from Brazilian Portuguese by Ellen Doré Watson

    On what might be called a street,
  • The Loneliness of His Death

    I like to think there’s a place where all the poets go
  • Notes Toward a Treatise on the Atlantic Periwinkle

    None knows the song devoted to winkles.
  • A Canticle Rehearsal in The Temple and The Waters Do Not Return, Even to Meribà

    Oh, I am tired of my land,
  • The End

    Whatever is coming is the end, but not really.
  • Song of The Hoarse Bullhorn Holder

    I eviscerated Vince, my prized pig, to calm the churning sea