Poems

To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Triumph Consider Icarus, pasting those sticky wintgs on, testing that strange little tug at his shoulder blade, and […]

Torn Down From Glory Daily All day we watched the gulls striking the top of the sky and riding the blown roller coaster. Up there godding […]

Unknown Girl In A Maternity Ward Child, the current of your breath is six days long. You lie, a small knuckle on my white bed; lie, […]

Us- I was wrapped in black fur and white fur and you undid me and then you placed me in gold light and then you crowned […]

Wallflower- Come friend, I have an old story to tell you— Listen. Sit down beside me and listen. My face is red with sorrow and my […]

Wanting to Die Since you ask, most days I cannot remember. I walk in my clothing, unmarked by that voyage. Then the almost unnameable lust returns. […]

What’s That Before it came inside I had watched it from my kitchen window, watched it swell like a new balloon, watched it slump and then […]

When Man Enters Woman When man, enters woman, like the surf biting the shore, again and again, and the woman opens her mouth with pleasure and […]

Where I Live in This Honorable House of the Laurel Tree I live in my wooden legs and O my green green hands. Too late to […]

Where It Was At Back Then Husband, last night I dreamt they cut off your hands and feet. Husband, you whispered to me, Now we are […]