Poetry

2004

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Carnivory
I will crawl over you...
if you will not let me love you
Latitude and Longitude
Mallard
Pet Peeve
Pueblo del Rio de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula
Personne ne m'aime et j'ai les mains froides
Serious Gifts
Small

2002

Decision
I've used up all my eloquence
Mindskipping
No Deep-Sea Biologists Have Died of Exploding Fish
she wants to be courted
Speaking in Fingers
(the first line of which is shamelessly stolen from my friend Jamie)
Tender Eternity

2001, Imitations

Absurdity
in imitation of Thomas Hardy's Heredity
As I sit writing here
in imitation of Walt Whitman's As I sit writing here
Bubble
in imitation of George Herbert's Easter Wings
If they died tomorrow . . .
in imitation of Leonidas of Tarentum, who wrote lots of eulogies
The Last Page of the Book
in imitation of Dorothy Parker's Two-Volume Novel
Moment
in imitation of the Japanese poet Saigyo
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother
in imitation of Kenneth Rexroth's Married Blues
Time and its Labyrinth
in imitation of Borges' To a Coin


1996-2000?
Last Night Everything Reminded Me of You
Live
Maidenly Argument
The Moocher's Creed
Octopus Serenade
Penelope
Remembering
The Sailing Ship of Sorrow
Tears of Oil, Tears of Wine
When I Love You Most