Poems

In Your Absence

Rattle / October 16, 2009

my yearning ripened like the last apple russet and out of reach but for the sun touching it briefly the […]

Rattle / October 14, 2009

The potato salad warms to curds, and my aunt declares the day hotter than hottest skin, pauses under her full

Rattle / October 13, 2009

He photographed the corner of his room. He did it over and over, the camera standing on its tripod, a

Rattle / October 12, 2009

You have to see the new ‘vette— it’s low and long, like the prow of a boat. Sitting in it

Rattle / October 8, 2009

Ex-boyfriends appear like daffodils after a slow and stuttering melt. Last autumn squirrels dug up bulbs, ran off and buried

Rattle / October 6, 2009

Three naked men wrestle a fish spine and ribs annunciate like floor clacking nails on a splay-hip dog, an accident