shorter poems*

(*shorter than 14 lines)

 

The Election

Lies

Your Paradise

Campaign ’24

Allegory

Quantum Foam

The Devil

[last day of spring]

[multiflower rose]

Stigmata

[spring day, puff of wind]

Rituals

[snow falling gently]

Well-Made Things

Basilisk

One Theory

Good

Steerage

Unfinished Epilogue

What We Wanted

The Feast of All Souls

As Prophesied

Our Hero

Indolence

Two Tankas

Sunday Mass

Tanka for the Eve of Summer

Gloria

Marlboro May

The Shirt

Forgetting

Beer Hall Putsch

Heaven

My Shadow

Compulsion

We Wanted It to End

An Anchorite’s Catechism

A Gentle Nudge

Don’t Think

Enlightenment

A Good Puzzle

On the Trail at Dusk

I Dream a World

Pedagogy

The Butoh Dance

The Don

Bible Lesson

Sing, Bluebird, Sing!

Patagonia

April 2020

In the Garden of Sharon

Monarchs

Used to It

What Is It about Drums?

The Endling

Wisdom

Adrift

Walls

Farang (Getting across Bangkok)

Rose of Tralee

Lament

This Evening

Raspberries

Words Fail

Shrinking

Ruined Beauty

Garden Prep

Envy

Owls

It’s Come to This

July 3

Aquinas Has Questions for Hakuin

In the Art Bazaar

Rescue

He Thinks about His Ratings

Alone in the Woods

Our Haloes

January Thaw

Traces

The Art of the Spiel

Unpacking

Dog Days

They’re Mating Out There

Graduation

In the Dead Sea

Whiteout

Perfectly Good

The Spoils of Jerusalem

New England Autumn Suite

Air Conditioning

Position Available

She Rows

Hindsight

Ugly Girls

Auld Lang Syne

Accidents

A Toast

The Waiting Room

July 8

Why there are so few really good poems about acid

Weather

Beachcombers

Contact

Traffic Stop

At Sea

My Phone

Midwinter Rain

Family

Shooting Star

Grief

The Vineyard

Nantucket

Crows

Weird

Upon Learning of a Book Called

The View from Hinsdale Bridge

Biopsy

CAT Scan

Landscape

Astrology

Laguna Honda

The Dash Between

Summer Job

ars poetica

The Brace

murder

a blessing for Maia Thulé

potted plants

fences

Vie for the Pie!

to my actor pal

surefire submission to the editors of poetry

Sunkist

to my cabbie pal

 

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