Lackawanna Issue no. 203 Winter 2012 My brain had been swiped clean.I couldn’t lovesongs I loved; friends came
Two Poems Issue no. 169 Spring 2004 By year’s end, some couples used book lights,or even night-lights, so as not to make lovein total dark. What some told, others took in
The House Once Identified as Paradise Issue no. 155 Summer 2000 Never receives visitors, only inhabitants.Outside, icicles thaw from the eaves in winter,And even with its windows painted shut,
The Anniversary Issue no. 129 Winter 1993 Not just because a child draws him — pie-faced and frontal, Grinning—it’s hard to watch the man’s head and hands take shape From a black magic marker, despite the other colors in the box:
Two Poems Issue no. 119 Summer 1991 Chlorine and languor and vaporousThreads rising like the steam off soup,This brackish whirlpool wrinkles us,