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  • THE ABDUCTION | INSIGHT | THE FOUNTAIN

    The falcon, which he’s just bought, at his cheek,

  • Tool & Shade

    A brush of two minds still

  • Dream Vision of Theodore Roethke

    door to heaven? portal of wheres in a modern mound.

  • Insomnia, A Love Story

    Everybody sleeps.  Our poem starts with that premise.

  • WINDOWS (after Baudelaire)

    You never see as much in an open window as you will looking at it when it’s closed. 

  • Let Me Hear You

    I am the disappearing point of an inverted pyramid

  • Poor Fish

    I saw the loser in 3-card Monte

  • ON HANDSHAKES

    There are firm ones.  Soft, almost boneless ones.  Hardy/hearty ones.  Two-handed ones, cocooning.  Congratulatory

  • Three Poems

    ‘On the nose’ means obvious

  • Your Brother’s Face

    You believe your brother will come down

  • Rembrandt and the Great Drought

    Before your birth, of course, the drought

  • Borges at Dolphin Books: New Orleans, 1982

    He props his cane between Maps & True Crime,