Poems

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  • Oloid and Pareidolia

    Saturday, awake to the raw April outside. A dream that was on my tongue is gone with a swallow.
  • Booklet, Hand-Pressed Paper, Containing Locks of School-Children’s Hair, c. 1861

    Wound on a bobbin like thread.  Woven into a wreath
  • Toys

    Your toys, my child, hold them dear,
  • Alone at the New Year

    An instant of awe, then, afterwards,
  • Template

    Any skink
  • Two Poems

    In a blue wool cape and pearl earrings
  • From Inches Away

    From inches away his finger can’t miss
  • LOOKING FOR ZAGAJEWSKI UNDER THE COUCH

    If his book of poems isn’t there
  • Two Poems

    Begins standing In service
  • My Name in Sticks

    From the shallow sledding hill I gathered up
  • Regret

    Later in life, we enter the neighborhood
  • The Hardworking Man

    On the island where I grew up, the hardworking man is the ideal man.  The