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  • Resumé

    Families shame you;

  • Remnant Tongue

    I woke wounded

  • A Story of Mother Mary I Could Believe

    The woman who was Mary knew things.

  • Essay with a Grain of Salt

    Salt on black silk

  • In Case the Messiah Comes

    In Case the Messiah Comes   Split screen city. East doesn’t go West and West doesn’t go East. Occupied neighborhoods, buildings on buildings on dust of history.   Ramat Shlomo Haredi new homes with their backside to Shuafat. The Red brick headquarters model of 770 Eastern Parkway rising amid the white stone–in case the Messiah comes and wants to live

  • The Night Dancers

    Praise the shadows that slither up candlelit walls

  • Picasso & Dora Maar (1942)

    Four decades I have lived among the French

  • THE BRIDGE

    The most beautiful Russian girl in the world lives in Germany

  • A Singleton & Self Portrait: Between the Car and the Sea

    They climb to their lookout, each day, different,

  • PET SOUNDS

    The summer I bought Pet Sounds at G.C. Murphy’s, I hadn’t gone a block from the store when on impulse I smashed

  • The Rosy Tones

    the rosy tones

  • Two Poems

    burdens are from