the warm embrace of atmosphere traversed too quickly

Stage Directions

for a builder, a banker, an heiress.

in worn white collars

A few words about my mother

Murdered by Mary-Louise Parker

wax poetical

the nature of moments

Lolita’s Market

Our Good Italian Mothers

at dusk

In Defense of Reality Television Romance

structure

us, open

from altitude

the long odds of frog-princes

I gotta get out of this city.

OR

The Grand Scheme of Tiny Things (revised, w/ audio)

Editor’s Note:

a love letter

I WRITE

FAINT RECEPTION TO PRAISE

I FORGET IF I LOCKED MY CAR DOOR

war on the dining room floor

RE-TITLED

THE KIND CASHIER GAVE ME FIVE DOLLARS IN QUARTERS (LAUNDRY DAY)

the apex of the arc of us

Bukowski’s Lemonade

crosswords to cross words

Persephone (audio)

How I know this couple at the sushi bar’s relationship is doomed (w/ audio)

If the poet claims (w/ audio)

Ten Tips for Myself as a Young Writer

self-titled

hope kills the hopeful

After the Irish Music Festival

miniaturization of the rational soul

Entitled

Gauze

Impromptu Coffee House Interlude in Greenville, SC

What I Wouldn’t Give to Receive a Valentine from Kendra, Kid

Sharapova in Straight Sets

our quiets (v2)

Revisionist Poetry

our favorite, forgotten constellations

The December-Shallow Pond

Hemingway at the 231st St. Station

fragile things (Humpty Dumpty redux)

from the water tower to the long pier

with honey

what must Icarus have felt as he fell?

error in grammar

said Socrates

you, incarnate fire

left and leaving

embarrassing dynamism

cholesterol

Paul Simon

this is a poem i wrote just now about a spider

unnamed

distinction