Poetry

Choosing Stones
The last thing the Gittite saw was a laughable pebble flung by a gnat of a boy …

Psalm, roughly the size of a lung
The hate mail appeared in the church Suggestion Box …

Compulsion
After our home burned down in the Tea Fire, I started picking up trash on the streets …

Upon Our Seeing the Grand Tetons for the First Time
Deplaning the gondola after the steep ascent into the cloud-turbaned peaks, I am stepping high …

Aeronaut
We’d become accustomed to the wonders that he worked–the wheel that drives the mill …

Broken Balm
Life does not consist of accumulating small comforts …

My Lord I Sit Beige and Bubble Wrapped
My Loud I sit beige and bubble-wrapped when all my friends forskae me for jobs …

Sowing
Yes, the seeds are small, the ground hard and rocky …

In the Precincts of the Holy
The room, replete with what is about to happen, is full as well with coughing …

Imagining Iran, March 2026
We have no uncontaminated words for this

Contemplating the Redactions in the Newly Released Epstein Files
The women—I want to say women, but really they were girls …

The Return of Appetite
This morning I released, without a doubt, the same bright trout I gathered in my net …