Poems

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  • FISHERMAN, 50 B.C.

    What else would I do on the river
  • Genesis and The Anonymous City

    God made the world with his mouth.
  • Pour Ainsi Dire

    Drinking. What is boozing? If not a liquid manner of corresponding, thanks to wine,
  • Three Poems

    Being adopted means I have choices on “The Meaning of Your Name”
  • Grade School Cafeteria

    When it has been
  • Halfway Through Civilization, Late to Another

    meeting for grown-ups, i hurry across campus,
  • Threnody and Sylvia Plath

    The train coach, Jean—empty except for you,
  • Christmas Nineteen-Sixty-Something and Notes from My Doppelganger

    By that time we were hanging the tree from a hook
  • Unbeckoning Glass and Time Faking Surprises

    This color is exhaled smoke from a bummed cigarette, a stray cloud for the sky.
  • Essay: Domestic

    Brassiere
  • Lily of the Forest

    On the slopes of Mt. Ślęża, the cult
  • Steer’s Head Triptych

    the cowboy cut, the wrangler,