Poems

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  • Happiness on Earth

    Especially if you were waking
  • A Snow Woman

    A window on a side yard in winter.
  • Burning Leaves

    Leaf-fires smell like
  • Romanian Lessons & The Country of Leaving

    Godmother country,
  • The Gifts

    The closet where the black sweaters hang. Where the game of backgammon is played
  • Photographs, 1949 | Retiree

    In one, they pose, grinning straight at the Kodak,
  • Contagions of the Visible

    In the optics of the dark ages, the eye
  • House of Clouds | Song

    Clouds float over Giudecca  Island,
  • How to Topple a Kingdom

    Read overly-detailed novels.  Prefer
  • Major Brands…

    Cloth covers a woman’s face so we
  • After Reading Charles Wright I Turn Out the Light and Listen to the Rain

    Protestant American darkness
  • 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