Poems

Song “Gesang ist Dasein” A small thing done well, the steel bit paring the cut end of the collar, lifting delicate blue spirals of iron slowly […]

The Art of the Lathe Leonardo imagined the first one. The next was a pole lathe with a drive cord, illustrated in Plumier’s L’art de tourner […]

The Death of a Psychic The obituary in the L.A. Times says that you foresaw your own death, also a boy, dead, in a storm drain […]

Thermoregulation in Winter Moths How do the winter moths survive when other moths die? What enables them to avoid freezing as they rest, and what makes […]

Two Photographs Winter light, a white frame house filling the background as in a dream – the bare branches of a cottonwood, a piece of sky. […]

In August Heat urges secret odors from the grass. Blunting the edge of silence, crickets shrill. Wings veer: inane needles of light, and pass. Laced pools: […]

Megalosaurus A monster like a mountain, leathern limbed, With eyes of sluggish ore and claws of stone, He heaved his thunder-throated body, rimmed By marsh fires […]

Petrograd And there was stormy silence in that city, A silence of the unborn where it moved In darkness, piteous, but without pity, Tearing the body […]

A Song of the Palace. Her tears are spent, but no dreams come. She can hear the others singing through the night. She has lost his […]

A Suggestion to My Friend, Liu There’s a gleam of green in an old bottle, There’s a stir of red in the quiet stove, There’s a […]