Poems

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  • The Invention of Everyday Life

    A few days later Pierre arrived.
  • The Day

    Day I didn’t blink and the day was gone.
  • Hostile Takeover

    Cheeks puffed, she’s looking up at a horizontal
  • Houses

    Under the cold light of the chintzy white crown chandelier, I’d lean one upright card again
  • You Don’t Travel Light, Life

    is a cumbersome business.
  • Given Plums

    Early July my sister and I filled two sacks of plums from our orchard. We shook each tree until the ripest orbs fell
  • The Age of the Onion

    The onion is a Book of Revelations, diced to proverb-size.
  • Dear Lucinda Williams and Dear Jules

    A power in proximity to terror, the lower middle-class sublime of a car’s back seat,
  • SIXTH GRADE REDUX

    Good morning, Ladles and Jellyfish!
  • Classmate

    I was at the beach talking with someone else
  • Fado Tropical

    O mundo do rio
  • POSTCARD

    always the dark body hewn asunder; always