Poetry


New Poems 2009-2010

1. All-god Prayer
2. Bad Dream, Good Brother
3. Billy Burning
4. The Disappointment
5. Early Morning Lullabye
6. For Fred
7. Lowell and Bishop: Gone Fishing
8. Shredding Philip
9. The Terra Cotta Poet
10. The Critical Juncture
11. The Uncanny Valley
12. Xerxes Moves His Palace

All the Spots We Got 2002-2008

1. All the Spots We Got
2. Ballad of the Family Values
4. Corinth Canal
5. Date Night
6. Drinking the Y2K Water
7. Eating with Children
8. Lovedogs
10. For Michael for When We Are In Purgatory Together
11. Frog for Mary and Sam
12. History: Sonnet 1
13. History: Sonnet 2
14. History: Sonnet 3: Ralph’s Pants
15. Jump Book
16. I Like It
17. Last Poem for David
18. Letter to Italy
19. My Sisters at a Strip Club
20. My Shoe
21. Past Noir
22. Rage, Then Sin
22. The R.C. Organist Plays an Episcopalian Gig
23. Run On Road
24. Sheep
25. Song of the Offensive Lineman
26. Valentine from Hell

My People 1996-2002

1. A Dream
2. Allen Ginsberg
3. Anger
4. At Night Before Her Second Birthday
5. Before Love
6. Declan
7. Episode from the Great Famine
8. Father’s Day
9. God’s Golden Years
10. The R.C. Organist Plays an Episcopalian Gig
11. Halloween
12. Horace 5 (Quis multa gracilis te puer in rosa)
13. Horace 9 (Vides ut alta stet nive candidum)
14. Horace 22 (Integer vitae scelerisque purus)
15. Horace 23 (Vitas inuleo me similis, Chloe)
16. Horace 34 (Parcus deorum cultor et infrequens)
17. Horace 37 (Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero)
18. Horace 38 (Persicos odi, puer, apparatus)
19. I Grieve
20. My Father Who Art In Wheaton
21. My People
22. Sitting Out Back
23. Spiderman
24. The Happy Ones
25. The Peoples Drug
26. The Tao of Son
27. To Fly
28. Villanelle
29. Written on a Dollar Bill

 

Cool Ghosts 1990-1995

1. 62 Tatoiou Road
2. An Ether Mile
3. At the Lock (Innocence)
4. August
5. Bat
6. Blind Woman Knitting
7. Boy Meets Globe
8. Cool Ghosts
9. Country Light
10. Donald
11. Envy
12. Father Waking
13. For A Fever
14. For the Airman at the Athens Base
15. Heart and Soul
16. Hercules in Labor
17. Living Room
18. May Queen
19. The Mess
20. The Old Story
21. The Other Life
22. Perfect Pitch
23. Psalm
24. Revision
25. Rita
26. The Rest of The Way
27. Sonnet: A Short History of Mourning
28. So Wise
29. This Dusk
30. Versions of the Body
31. Your Celebrated Summer
32. Your Salvation