Physician in the Dark
That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing [...]
Preparing the Body
I’m feeding it, making sure the hair is combed, keeping [...]
Sunset Park Sunset
Surprise and aspiration are such killjoys: suddenly the sky turns [...]
Prolonging Rest
This year the crocuses, awkwardly counting in the yard, astound [...]
Bent Tree, Straight Shadow
The skeletal Mr. Bloch flunked me in physics. He gathered [...]
Ashokan Farewell
And so someone’s standing beside you, easel and canvas articulated [...]
Royal Stems
Passiflora incarnata like a radiating clock of three days. Purple, [...]
Froth of the Tides and the Further Out
A dime delights flesh before entering the economy of a [...]
The Ending Is in the Beginning
of this first movement of Suite No. 3 in C [...]
Epitaphs, for Epic
1 Aeneas shouldered his father and then took Troy with [...]