Poems

That 1 Jet Hockey Game

todd you unexpectedly reappearedat my house in ironwoodone december eveninga year after i was transferred…
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MUTE

This much I cannot say:for even the tools of my writing trade can collapseinto a…
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Algae

for Jack Fennell 1948 – 1992 The lesions in your brain are growing algaein your…
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Later

for Richard Chenault 1957 – 1995 Your voice translated me,a lucid memory. You videotaped my…
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$$$$$

sure i survived but at what pricefor sure it was steeperthan any down payment on…
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The Other Apple

One day they’d gone too far and got lost.They held each other and shivered nakedly…
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Haloes

Night weaves into the strands of my hairspinning the wheel of thoughts turninguntil streetlamps cast…
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Jaspilites

No one remembers how their arguments started.Zeus said, Hera said, that sort of thing.It always…
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The Archangel Michael

In my dreams he stood as tall as my family’s church.His feet were as big…
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Caryatids

We stand together, sisters of the porch,our bodies remembering the raw scorchof chisel hammering awayour…
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Animals Out There W-I-L-D: “Otters”

In English and ASL gloss [English] in a documentarythey dove ininto the burbleof river, braidingaround…
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The Caterpillar Queen

Her fuzzy hump, stringed like lapis lazuli eyes, smoothed from her face as she arched…
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Fireflies

Sunsets strike their match. Aflame, they awaken to flee their day cage. Master of their…
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To My Weary Traveler

Soothe your eyes upon my lit windows late at night;you’ve traveled enough all those years…
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Dupont Circle, 3 A.M.

You sipped one water drink after another to the tune of stark laughter echoing under…
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Jules

St. Mark’s Place may yawn and turn over for another day of new trends and…
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I Am a Shoe

for J.B. I am a shoe in need of a right-sized foot. I acheto have…
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The Language of Sleep

Ease of years, understanding: two taps,a time to let go for a turn of body,shifting…
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Luminescences

Trucks thundered by your blinded bedroom window:your eyelids did not flicker from light’s slices.!e moon…
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Arc de Triomphe, 2005

Once I arrived in Paris, I declared war against Time.That November I marched nonstop days…
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One Indian Summer

The sun came out and stilledeverything for a moment:The grasses stopped fading,the daffodils stopped drooping,the…
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Spiders

for Eleanor Fraites No danger signs prepare you: They droplike bricks frozen in mid-air in…
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Rink At Norrie School

We never caught the snowplow clearing the newwhite away from the center of the baseball…
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Acorns I

At Spruce and Oak Streetsthey are sleeping.Their knit caps have been pulledsmugly over their ears.Their…
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The Six Million Dollar Deaf Boy

After being abducted by aliens and left incoherentin the woods across the street, the government…
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