Poems

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  • Wilderness

    The mind is a wilderness like Bartram’s, razed, cemented over, marked by rows
  • Ode to Roadside Shrines

    I first see you in Crete, little boxes on four skinny legs,
  • To a High Aircraft | Palazzo Maldura

    While now by slow degrees
  • The Death of Erik Satie

    The arches aspire to points
  • Passing Royalty and Dostadning: Beginner’s Translation

    I’m sorry I didn’t comprehend sooner how threatening
  • from THE CITY OF PARIS HAS YOU IN MIND TONIGHT

    When G died began the midnight panic attacks.
  • WINDOWS (after Baudelaire)

    You never see as much in an open window as you will looking at it when it’s closed. 
  • Hanger

    You needed one
  • The Rehearsal

    At our first duo rehearsal—Bach’s B-
  • Two Fat Braids Crossed at the Crown

    Mishearing you holding out the gadget plug,
  • From AfterTalk

    Dumuzi spoke: “My sister, I would go with you to my garden
  • Essay with a Grain of Salt

    Salt on black silk