Poems

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  • PROTECT YOUR HOME (Interpret It Well), a short film with music by Ches Smith

    The composition has two movements, one slow and one fast.
  • Afterimage

    Do you remember those Cornell shadow boxes we saw at some
  • His Side

    Easy now to stand on a bluff and see
  • To a High Aircraft | Palazzo Maldura

    While now by slow degrees
  • Poems from Ukraine translated by Dzvinia Orlowsky and Chard deNiord

    If it was a wedding instead of war,
  • “Summer with Monika” translated from Polish by Scotia Gilroy

    we spent the days lying on the hot asphalt, fleeing
  • Shakedown, Sleeping Mother and The Touch

    On Main Street, two cops stop me in front of the tire store. One is big and burly and the other is lean
  • Glare

    It just goes so fast,
  • Found Poem: “Swelling Anti-Asian Violence: Who Is Being Attacked Where,” NYT, April 3, 2021 

    Queens | A 47-year-old man and his 10-year-old son
  • The Sun Pours Forth & An American in Paris

    We are in a garden among friends
  • Received Wisdom

    A horse fence
  • The Public Servants and Amateur

    To be delivered by a sad man standing in a single light.