Poems

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  • Five Poems

    His Dublin sister, two sons,
  • Eating the Madeleine

    I remember the scut of it:
  • Words

    Words are loyal.
  • A Terribly Sentimental Fork

    As unmined silver,
  • Who Will Plant the Seeds of Svalbard and Orchard Fruit: Grafting

    as far north you go     as night you go night 
  • An Invasion

    We waited and waited, or by we
  • The Mirror

    We dream of two dragons
  • True West

    We return by foot from pre-plantation oaks,
  • Moisei Fishbein translated from the Ukrainian by John Hennessy and Ostap Kin

    During the war and for some time after the war
  • I prefer synthetic grass

    no roots no worm
  • Rembrandt, Self-Portrait, Age 51

    Rembrandt, I aspire to your self-portraits
  • A Sampler

    As you hold your breath, like a watchman waiting for sunrise. Let’s replace immediacy with a swift cataclysm, replace