Poems

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  • The Merchants of Venice

    The man speaks some Italian, the woman
  • Three Orgasm Poems

    She thinks success would be her best revenge. It’s not enough for her now, merely to be alive. Or to feel bliss in brief
  • Hapax Legomenon

    Literally “thing said once,
  • Deciduous (Evening in a Polar Vortex)

    Blanket, you hear, means to cover,
  • What You Can’t Fix

    She was always fixing me, stuffing filler in my holes
  • Three Poems

    came, still in her cremation box, when we threw her
  • Two poems by Adélia Prado (from Miserere) translated from Brazilian Portuguese by Ellen Doré Watson

    On what might be called a street,
  • Dream Vision of Theodore Roethke

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

    If this gray house where I live, house
  • Regret

    Later in life, we enter the neighborhood
  • A Tall Bird 

    on the one hand, beauty remains.
  • Those little plastic number puzzles | Linnaean

    given out at grade school parties: