Smooth and cool with a streak the color of clouds and fog broken   by a coastline, the dove’s egg, because I was pregnant,   seemed to be a…

  Brother, do you remember                the splinters, the shape of that conversation? The words                the bent metal made? How I…

  I am two people at dusk, two bodies wrapped in thin cotton Among the crabgrass on some night in August when the narrow Alley light of the full moon…

  Here lie the femurs, drowned swimmers’ bones raised with cranes to analyze back on land under lights more clinical than this one, bleaching me, day after day, with loggerhead…

  It is rare for a person to enter a castle, but common for him to die there. Often enough I feed the wrong meter. One bird will raise another’s…

  Would you believe my red if I exposed the green underneath? Would you carefully cry into my figure and mourn the wet shoulder in your wake? Don’t bother— this…

  Tell me the distance between here and home is not remorse or an old loss rousing out of sleep. Tell me memories are not attached to time. Tell me…

  Remember October, the one pressed in your bible & that red whipping wind over the pier. Remember the heavy light   of a bright dying, the compass, a magic…

  To conjure love from bitterness, To plant the mint and watch it thrive, From anger capture anger’s fright, Whisk pity into empathy, To walk the dogs in fields at…

  Down in the cellar there's a household god. He is drinking up the planet. He has little eyes in his belly, Which are his thoughts, Evidence that he may…

  Last night a storm gleaned the last leaves from trees in our courtyard, made a chartreuse cemetery on mulch, exposing ribs of houses once hidden behind profuse canopies. Like…

  In the U-Haul leaving Chicago, we traverse the tall scaffold of the Indiana Skyway. I reach out the window for something concrete, pull back my hand to find candle…