Poemed

Poemed

sky-blue-prison prism of spin-back-earth for fall is the time of damn-dappled, of drab-drama-ed, of never-liked the-stubble-field-so-much-as-now (and soon a roethke-complicated wait-light) but now, now: the yellow apples: appley, crook’d, under the little- armed...
Two Poems

Two Poems

The Guests The children press their noses  to our bumpy, flawless etrog.  They hold it tightly, inhale its zesty scent,  pass it on to apparitions over their shoulders.  Winged angels – my ancestors – reunite, mingle and drift  like holy ushpizin...
Seed

Seed

When I tell myself this story, all the action takes place under an empty sky. Neighborhood bungalows stare blankly into space; no one cutting grass or walking dogs. I might have been with Andrea, or maybe just alone, walking home from school; long concrete stairs cut...
Three Poems

Three Poems

Laying in Bed at the Hampton Inn with my Pregnant Wife, the Night Before my Daughter was Born Outside it’s North Dakota And November feels like November, but on the moon. We are in bed. Reading the paper Like any couple In an Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode Right...