Two Poems

Two Poems

  Grand Central            I thought of you today, Billy Collins, in the subway changing trains at the center of eight million poems turning and turning like a tourist bewildered under the clock inside the palace at the still point of an analog world in a...
The Futility of Biography

The Futility of Biography

             Can she really be known, she whom we romanticize?          We can research her family tree, the number of children she bore...
It’s Good To Be King

It’s Good To Be King

             if they call you Richard the Lionhearted,          honcho of the Crusades and hero to Robin Hood;          or...
Three Poems

Three Poems

    This Activity Is Not Available            A fire ritual          burns hot little graves          for my...
Two Poems

Two Poems

    I wish to say             I wish to say that I resent           the way my life becomes           a...