Kiki Smith Getting the Bird Out, 1992 bronze and string 10x11-1/2x7"(25.4x29.2x17.8cm), head1-1/2x6x1-1/2"(3.8x 15.2 x 3.8 cm), bird...

In Which I Consider Depression and the Fall of Humanity in the Context of My Dog’s Misbehavior The chemical make-up of my brain is part...

veteran’s day the japanese have a word for disused paper moon which we translate sunrise which my grandfather brought back from the war...

Blizzard Book 2 Losing Track I lose track of my shadow the night I lose track of the moon. She’s always been clear I don’t own her even...

For the Intercession of St. Therese of Lisieux Who believed there would be rescue Who always remembered to say Thank you Who thought...

The Fights Hugo and Wright like to watch the fights on TV, jabbing along the way my dad did. They were poets but they liked blood, too,...

How Was Your Delivery? My mother’s pale arms waved us home in the firefly dusk up other steps of another house with a screened-in porch....

Transcendent Nightswimming deserves a quiet night. ­– Nightswimming, R.E.M. Night sky and water have married, a continuous blackboard of...

Storm, September 2018 The dog doesn’t flinch against the fists of rain. It’s a brindle-colored cur skulking across the flooded lot...

after they hit the city (Grozny, winter 1995) I keep thinking of Isa the driver sidling into the picture so he could slip his arm around...

Fool's Spring Every year it buries us under sinuous drifts just when our tattered faith has been repaired by nesting owls and sudden...

en plein air for many years I fucked en plein air : not to transgress : felt neither fear nor frisson at being caught : seen in the open...

The Salesman Has a Vision Each night I sat on the porch and wished to regain my lost motivation, my desire to sell others what they don’t...

At the kitchen table, maybe in the afternoon I tell my mother I am pregnant and she says oh, isn’t that wonderful and smiles then says...

i had this thought it was a good one too, made a little sense maybe, not a capital Something but damn how it startles out on the edge of...

two stray mutts on seventh st one lopes with a limp we call him low-rider he claws our alley home more than the one without gnaws hot...

We Must Tear into the Wall to find the leak, each minor push come morning browning more of paint & baseboard, dampening an arc of carpet...

A Dream I’m parked outside the MFA and a homeless man is approaching my car and I have a dollar in my hand. I’ve been celebrating the...

Tipping Point The specialist looked me over, pointed his finger and said Look, you’ve passed the tipping point there’s nothing anyone can...

Beetles in Purgatory I wait for my boyfriend outside the bathroom, as he dresses for the funeral, looming in the hallway of his parents...