Song For an Old Lover
Posted in Poems on Jul 24th, 2010 No Comments »
In the South we spend the hot still nights
lying awake in the dark under the ceiling fan that rattles
and bucks as it spins,
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Xenophilia
Posted in Poems on Jun 24th, 2010 No Comments »
On Sunday nights, when my father drove his old car
home from my grandmother’s house in the dark
Covenant
Posted in Poems on Mar 29th, 2010 No Comments »
When the third moon went out, slowly vanishing
like a shadow getting smaller,
we still swore everything would be all right.
Swan Song
Posted in Poems on Mar 17th, 2010 No Comments »
That cold night I finally knew I was dying.
I put out the cat and lit a fire in the fireplace.
Ethnography
Posted in Poems on Feb 11th, 2010 No Comments »
The wind huffed in our ears all the way up the hill,
my skirt kicked and tangled with my boots.
Stella
Posted in Poems on Jan 19th, 2010 No Comments »
We were movers back in the day
before I found this chair that locked me in
Old Man River
Posted in Poems on Jan 17th, 2010 No Comments »
The night my grandmother died
the full winter moon was shivering,
In the Glass Darkly
Posted in Poems on Nov 9th, 2009 No Comments »
I heard the train
like a phonecall from God
Comet
Posted in Poems on Oct 3rd, 2009 No Comments »
I took my heart to Greece
I did not expect anything from you
Zoology
Posted in Poems on Sep 13th, 2009 No Comments »
The mounted bison in the museum
who watch over their glass-eyed calf