Poems

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  • CONGREGATION | AT LAST

    We are six strangers gathered
  • Embraced

    I have visited an ancient redwood and heard it creak
  • For Night to Fall

    You could tell from the start that the best
  • The Book of Before All This

    They're retrieving what's retrievable.
  • The Hardworking Man

    On the island where I grew up, the hardworking man is the ideal man.  The
  • To a Soldier in Ukraine

    A soldier must know three things—
  • On Chanukah

    Isn’t fire itself
  • FISHERMAN, 50 B.C.

    What else would I do on the river
  • Elegy & Brooklyn, 1957

    My brother told me we would join the Wide
  • Your Brother’s Face

    You believe your brother will come down
  • GETTING READY THE HOUSE | THEY ARE MOVING ALONG

    My friend goes to visit his grave
  • Memorial Bench

    Suzanne and Half Zantop loved sitting here—