Poems

Hosanna to Life

Rattle / November 23, 2008

For years my ego fooled me. I carried the world on my shoulders. I now realize how inane that was […]

Rattle / November 22, 2008

We’ve seen you scurrying through light spill on our deck, bunched over tiny claws, tail bare and dragging. You’re there

Rattle / November 19, 2008

from the outside it looks like a college campus, situated off the highway, with a long road that leads to

Rattle / November 18, 2008

I’ve called the cops on him, friendly guy next door who sneaks pork fat to my cat, cookies to my

Rattle / November 17, 2008

2006 Rattle Poetry Prize Winner | The husband calls from two hundred miles away / to say he cannot stand it …

Rattle / November 9, 2008

It’s the first time he doesn’t want us around. They disappear upstairs with sleeping bags, pillows, a miniature suitcase, like