Poems

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  • ARS POETICA

    It's not the smoking I miss
  • when you ask me if you are a good father & cook up meets god

    look     we know how this will play out
  • On the Banks of the Allegheny

    We had started over again—
  • Anthem and Under the Sun

    Through the backyard of a shuttered home
  • BUSH | SERIAL

    Warms thieves.
  • Notes Toward a Treatise on the Atlantic Periwinkle

    None knows the song devoted to winkles.
  • The Night Dancers

    Praise the shadows that slither up candlelit walls
  • In Case the Messiah Comes

    In Case the Messiah Comes   Split screen city. East doesn’t go West and West doesn’t go East. Occupied neighborhoods, buildings on buildings on dust of history.   Ramat Shlomo Haredi new homes with their backside to Shuafat. The Red brick headquarters model of 770 Eastern Parkway rising amid the white stone–in case the Messiah comes and wants to live

  • Georges de la Tour! Georges de la Tour! | Metka | The Cross

    I see how you climb!
  • And This is How It Happens

    Because I have been happily
  • Olympia

    The ancient Greeks knew how to pick out a sacred spot,
  • Poem

    I’m going to pretend I’m a painter and just