Daughter I write about her in poems, thinking she can be brought back by songs. In dreams, she floats around…
La Spezia Instead, he flicks a royal wave towards La Spezia Gulf, exhales for emphasis and plunges the quartered lime…
The Anchovy of Melancholy In my vision along the bookshelf Anchovy becomes Anatomy of Melancholy where Burton accuses fish of…
Desert Tableau, Fort Rock, Oregon Spray of feathers. Last flight flown. Bird no more. Rodent skull bleached to chalk, with…
Mornings in Melancholia --after Freud’s 1917 essay “Mourning and Melancholia” I. A strange country to walk into at ten A.M.…
Unstitched I am held together by tiny stitches on small scraps of feed sack, snatches of wool, snips of gingham.…
Li Bai on His Way to Meng Haoran’s Grave The anger of a gathering storm stirs the sullen sky with…