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(a collaboration with Todd Colby ) I can't feel my fingers when the water gets cold, I'm soaking in it. As instructive as a grack...

(collaboration with Todd Colby)  We always knew you'd wind up the captain of a slew of banana boats.  Perhaps it ...

My new book of poems from Noctuary Press, What Is a Domicile , is now available from Small Press Distribution . Below is a sample poem from ...

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A Mirror Clif sighs, takes a sip from his cup, & looks vacantly into the middle distance, so the baby sighs, takes a sip from his ...

Reading and Writing Finish unloading groceries and eating a snack of hummus and pita chips.  Sit down to write poem with a movie playing i...

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Even then, parked at the crest of a large hill in a Tennessee Valley town, waiting for my mother to run into the Smoky Mountain Market su...

Having slept so little and a wave of recognition and pure affection when "Across the Universe" comes on, the way John says Words...

Hope I was hoping to someday make it to California where (I imagine) things are(n't) flat & (im)possible & professionally ...

[with Todd Colby] Sumptuous Dress On the subject of human finery, he could talk for hours, which made us uneasy as he rifled through t...

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False Cup-and-Saucer It never occurred to her to be conventional. Sometimes she wished it would.

I Have Hitched My Wagon to a Star  (a collaboration with Todd Colby ) Here, I'll explain it to you with this white board.  ...

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A Day in the Life A meal of oatmeal and organic bananas? I'm thinking and nibbling on chocolate, Friday April 18th, 3:03 pm.  Lifting...

Signs and Portents Once nearly twenty years ago, she had become oddly immobile after her second year of grad school.  Immobile may be the ...

Settled "So much khaki and uncombed hair!" is how my mom described the Unitarians that time she was trying out being a joiner.  ...

April 15th It drizzled all day, and by afternoon, overcome with the thought that I had become a bad luck person, I fell deeply asleep when...

Poem in a Late Style Today I kept getting turned around in the Village then I got home and someone on TV asked if I had a turkey neck Do...