Arabic of the hair of my husband’s chest each year a new phrase   aquamarines in my hair tremors of light my husband’s diamond mind,   Gift us, O…

  I was visiting the capital city of Slovenia, passing through the park. At the edge was a man selling chestnuts, sitting on a bag of chestnuts, inhaling a cigarette…

  for Darach   So quickly, this child learns the ways of swipe and scroll. We find him, hiding behind the sofa with a small screen, his little fingers far…

  Night after night this waking, suddenly middle-aged and barely able to drag myself to the kitchen, finding it hard to be in night’s gulf with so much blatant wanting,…

  The feel of a sheet is called the hand. The feel of a hand is called a plan. Paris is a plan. His petunias are a plan. After the…

  Chatsworth Estate, Derbyshire England, May 2012   Having left London to see what was demolished in 1920, which was the world’s largest greenhouse.   Having found in its place a hedge…

  When the task is vast and grim, the gods fit you with blinders— bend your focus to the miniscule. Awaiting no godmother, Aschenputtel settles to the work, bows her…

  Taken for granted, his teeth, when taken from his mouth one crisp spring day, suddenly seemed so useful and white (the clever way they end-stopped the sad, pink sponge…

  Winter-honed knife, halving the space between us. Each week, the having and not having. And in the fields beside the road, the calving.

  There’s Monet at the edge of the water-lily pond. It’s 1905. The Great War is still no menace, but he can sense his mission: to paint canvasses that will…

  I am a fourth magnitude star above Manhattan, a full moon rising beside me. I am blue socks in a drawer of blue socks. I am the shell passed…

  The pond we kissed beside was full of soda cans and stars. The bathroom sink continues to drip into the orange stain of itself. The same color would be…