Poetry
Potentially Inaccurate
Alike the stars that far do shine, / are shone to us with days still ravelled. / / We are not seen by our light, / but only that which travelled....
Single Pansy among Stones
Yellowest ear. Stepped on rather than around, and no sisters. Holy granite. Saladable? Perish that fancy. / / Trying so hard to be the sun it hurts. /
Translating Paul Celan
Nothing is as it seems, but buds on the trellis are the colour / of wine. Crocus bowls brim with fresh snow / / Not even the jay’s scream of I...
Marine Biology
You asked me if I knew how kite fish / kiss, and I said I didn’t / and you leaned forward, / slid your lips quickly over mine, / and then pulled...
Post-Surgery
My right arm casted, this poem has little choice / but to wend, flesh-bare and wan through Percocet / dreams where bones severed, coalesce. Like Neolithic / ground offering up the remains...
The Tribble
I approach the panel. Your blazer makes / my eyes wend. Are you there, Catullus? / I need to borrow the spindles of fate. / / You lift the lid. The...
Instructions for Peer Evaluation, with Examples
Slide 1: You must give a spread of grades. / / Slide 2: You must explain on the reverse the salient attributes / of your group members, as follows: / ...
Contest Winner
To the Woman I Left at the World’s Fair, 1974.
There you were, an Eastman Kodak girl in a yellow dress, / Orange-lipped and garrulous, offering to take my picture. / / What was the line I used to scoop you...
Contest Winner
How the Starling Came to America: a glosa for P.K. Page
It was that teen who made our sky inscribable. / Juliet. I would I were thy bird, she said. The tickle / of her eyelashes made everything salient. Her lover, / needing...