Poems

For Aunt Louise, Who Never Liked Me

Rattle / December 21, 2009

Some days when she was working in the garden, she liked everything. July afternoons, with the tomatoes weeded and the […]

Rattle / December 19, 2009

They laughed when I asked for pancetta, those grocery store clerks. I don’t care. It’s better to be chic

Rattle / December 16, 2009

There was a girl with a red scarf, a girl with a white scarf, a girl with a pink scarf,

Rattle / December 14, 2009

Charon is in a hurry, if you can imagine it, revving the engine of his outboard motor with one hand

Rattle / December 13, 2009

My wife and I changed our minds today, began buying Christmas presents again for people over 4 feet tall. The

Rattle / December 12, 2009

Toi Derricotte from THE TELLY CYCLE Joy is an act of resistance For Telly the fish Telly’s favorite artist was