Poems

Lament- Someone is dead. Even the trees know it, those poor old dancers who come on lewdly, all pea-green scarfs and spine pole. I think… I […]

Lessons in Hunger “Do you like me?” I asked the blue blazer. No answer. Silence bounced out of his books. Silence fell off his tongue and […]

Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound I am surprised to see that the ocean is still going on. Now I am going […]

Live Live or die, but don’t poison everything… Well, death’s been here for a long time — it has a hell of a lot to do […]

Lobster- A shoe with legs, a stone dropped from heaven, he does his mournful work alone, he is the old prospector for golf, with secret dreams […]

Locked Doors For the angels who inhabit this town, although their shape constantly changes, each night we leave some cold potatoes and a bowl of milk […]

Love Letter Written In A Burning Building I am in a crate, the crate that was ours, full of white shirts and salad greens, the icebox […]

Lullaby- It is a summer evening. The yellow moths sag against the locked screens and the faded curtains suck over the window sills and from another […]

More Than Myself Not that it was beautiful, but that, in the end, there was a certain sense of order there; something worth learning in that […]

Mother and Daughter Linda, you are leaving your old body now, It lies flat, an old butterfly, all arm, all leg, all wing, loose as an […]