Poetry
Summer 1996
Soon
He had always supposed he would die first, before her, though he didn’t think about it much. It was like a secret learned and then forgotten, a letter that hurts […]
Poetry
Summer 1996
Legacy
Annemarie is nearly six. It is too earlyin her life for the rain to remind herof anyone, of a conversation that endsin privacy, two people alone togetherat a window blurred […]
Poetry
Winter 1991
When You Wish upon a Star That Turns into a Plane
The Replacements My clothes are standing up without me,though it’s just the bus is here, the noise of people pulling thingsinto line. And I don’t want a ride but the […]
Poetry
Winter 1991
Explaining the Evening News to Corbyn
after Ben Watt I heard Caruso last night for the first time, I’m twenty-eight.My stepfather sat me in a lounge chair the color of rain on new grass, and said, […]
Poetry
Winter 1991
Serious Affection
Are you okay, she asks from wherever she is. A storm settles on the wires between us. I listen for the desert in her voice. She is at the bottom […]