Poems

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  • Lyre

    Because it hangs from the center of the sky,
  • Carbide

    As he approached the river a little Fiat drew off the main road and parked among
  • Prayer Written on a Wide Veranda on a Comfortable Couch in Sewanee, TN

    If prayer requires an audience that is divine
  • Five Poems

    His Dublin sister, two sons,
  • Flight, Ours & A Burn So Bad It Requires Ice

    We’re in bad, we’re in terrible, shape
  • Dead Tree in the Back Yard & Gait

    You aren’t mine. A lot line
  • You Don’t Travel Light, Life

    is a cumbersome business.
  • Threnody and Sylvia Plath

    The train coach, Jean—empty except for you,
  • Dew Point

    Because of the nipple crust riming a girl’s
  • Last Poem

    Reader, today
  • A Brief Portfolio

    As if overnight, the flowering pear tree
  • Phone Call: Lesson in Style and The Story of Civilization

    “Everything feels all swollen and puffy, like my brain