hello stranger
this is where
you enter […]
EKG
We’re together in the kitchen when you say […]
Pythagoras Said the Soul of Homer Moved into a Peacock
My peacock is strutting on the deck again. […]
Contrapasso
[In Dante, ‘contrapasso’ refers to the idea that a given punishment in Hell should symbolically represent the sins committed]
The sun came to me and wanted my friendship. […]
Split Second
Into the split second where the gear’s teeth will engage, […]
Aunt Leuco and the Fates
“Our thread is cut like that.” My loose translation […]
I Wish I’d Held My Father’s Hand
My father put what he wanted to buy on the drugstore […]
Summer Haiku
the noise […]
Close Is Far and Figured
We pull away, the subway platform an erased slate. […]
A Kingdom of Fallen Statues
Just as children scrawl self-portraits […]
Slainte
Three months dead and your poem […]
The Splintering
As a boy I was all body, my body part of all […]
DNA
The young woman on the bus […]
Our Lady of Cambridge
Virgin of Harvard Square, gendering grace, […]
At the Summer Solstice
Rain had sluiced the budding […]
Prayer
In a quiet corner of the supermarket parking lot […]
Gratitude
While sleet scarred the dark pane white, […]
The Block Before Columbus
The neighbors never called nine-one- […]
A Pair of Limmer Boots
The life that required custom leather […]
Four Haiku
feral orchard […]
A Cairn by the Cabin
. . . the asphalt parking […]
Morning Prayer
In a poor Istanbul neighborhood, […]
The Season of Our Sundering
Under locust trees, in the blossoming park by Town Hall, […]
Thank You
for today, for reminding me at midnight
First Chairs
I thought, they seem like violins, […]
Luna Moths
On the day I realize my father […]
That Blue
One day after the eternal winter, […]
Four Haiku
light on the pond […]
Lingua Franca
My language languishes: […]
Boneshaker
Not to need a horse, or have to wait for a carriage, […]
Chanson on the Red Line
The heart opens […]