Writing
2026
The Despot
The one who, after every announcement of someone’s death, eats more.— Elias CanettiA very rich man…
No Map for This
She called to say the doctors found a lump.Hours away, universe dark above us.Coming home from…
An Exercise in How Small I Can Shrink Myself
I'll start with the toes,curling them towards the ball of the footin a less imposing pose.
Pathos and Puns, Feeling for Heartache Beneath a Suit of Amore
I had learned not to take gravity lightly; even before the apple fell, it weighed heavily…
Just Kick Back, and Let the Wheel Turn
He saw through everything, and so it was he saw nothing – the nothing that is…
Imagine
if we assumed humanity first;if we held our other descriptors,our demands about where from and why—
The Art of Not Breathing
A butterfly flicks its wings and, somewhere,across the world you smile.When I flip through old files,…
You see me now?
The line of cars outside the entrance to the Mukoshima Outlet Park and Gardens complex, a…
Meditations on Incarceration
WeedIn the joint, pinheadjoints cost tens dollars, helping
The Insomniac
Stretched out in the back of the busa woman twitches in her sleep,reminds me of a…
Hamlet in New York State
Clouds clot the sky, where they break, the retiring sunpulses through the firmamentdraped over the wounded…
Poem for the Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz
You wobbling cantileverbetween the agesFitting into circles,
The Bailiff
“All rise!” the bailiff announced after he entered the rustic courtroom even though he was the…
My Melancholy Manifestos
My melancholy manifesto starts with a trick question. How does a man allow his identity to…
In Our Time
In this ignominious timeI have turned 70.The world is a sore.