Poetry
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...
Contest Winner
Flammable Rabbits of Stockholm
What this party needs is the twentieth century: / remember me? This is not a story. A Reuters scoop and grim / / retorts, anti-polymer, pro-bunny. Pro-messy / medieval oil paintings,...
Dirty Snow
A spray of reddish dust: desiccated earth, / Shreds of maple, hardened blood. / Black particulate: charcoal, / Ash sifted across meadow, stream bank, road. / / Tiny paper flakes: cream,...
Cave Art
Early March sun hot on the coffee table and my stocking feet, I’m / looking at photos of iron oxide and charcoal paintings someone made / in near darkness on the walls...