Poems

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  • Salvation, in B#

    Bigtime Baltimore, new
  • Those little plastic number puzzles | Linnaean

    given out at grade school parties:
  • Confession Therapy and Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

    One summer, as I was cleaning out the grooves in my palm, I was living in a monastery.
  • Eating the Madeleine

    I remember the scut of it:
  • Purge

    The Aryan Jesus, in Hitler’s painting
  • Someone Is Walking the Pig

    Someone is walking the pig in our downstairs hallway, where the shops are.
  • Two Poems

    might it not behoove us to retire, to pull away
  • The Poets

    They are farmers, really--
  • Fake Lemon Tree on a November Day in a Boat Depot in Chelsea

    O lemon tree, how you emerge, distinct from everything
  • Daniel Whipped at the Market, St. Augustine, 1849

    What makes memory?
  • Synecdoche, New York

    When you meet
  • Lost Tails, City of Money and Counting the Money

    One day our tails fell off and lay at our feet like giant dead caterpillars.