HIGH SUMMER

leaves droop from trees the sky droops from branches like a white sheet to hold the locusts in their buzzsaw … More

EASY RIDERS

come for supper my dad says, he’s grilling I say we’re supposed to stay inside you’re not sick he tells … More

All praise the lepers, praise the boars praise mud and dust and filth, the flies, metal buildings with metal doors. … More

The Dead now make their pilgrimage Back to their homes, back to our side. I hear their laughter on the … More

I don’t want to be one of those people folded over a cell phone screen like a larva, sucking from … More

God I cannot picture you with breasts and the dark triangular bush from which I emerged, along with all. I … More

Heaven knows I’m not proud of being a meat-eater, but something in me growls and snorts and licks its jowls … More

O father help me not to stare, wide-eyed, when my brother falls. Help me not to sniff his breath for … More

What is a psalm a poem a prayer
if not a Wall Street ticker tape
our fear spelled out in numbers

I.We had only one day in Paris, pilgrim-starved and threadbare, broke we’d walked to the tomb of a saint, from … More