Poems

Cigarettes And Whiskey And Wild, Wild Women (from a song) Perhaps I was born kneeling, born coughing on the long winter, born expecting the kiss of […]

Cinderella- You always read about it: the plumber with the twelve children who wins the Irish Sweepstakes. From toilets to riches. That story. Or the nursemaid, […]

Clothes Put on a clean shirt before you die, some Russian said. Nothing with drool, please, no egg spots, no blood, no sweat, no sperm. You […]

Cockroach Roach, foulest of creatures, who attacks with yellow teeth and an army of cousins big as shoes, you are lumps of coal that are mechanized […]

Consorting With Angels I was tired of being a woman, tired of the spoons and the post, tired of my mouth and my breasts, tired of […]

Courage It is in the small things we see it. The child’s first step, as awesome as an earthquake. The first time you rode a bike, […]

Cripples And Other Stories My doctor, the comedian I called you every time and made you laugh yourself when I wrote this silly rhyme… Each time […]

Crossing The Atlantic We sail out of season into on oyster-gray wind, over a terrible hardness. Where Dickens crossed with mal de mer in twenty weeks […]

Demon A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon’s mouth sometimes…– D. H. Lawrence I mentioned my demon to […]

Despair Who is he? A railroad track toward hell? Breaking like a stick of furniture? The hope that suddenly overflows the cesspool? The love that goes […]