What goes on: selected & new poems, 1995-2009

from Loosestrife

Tucson

Wild

Ars poetica

The song

Imagining myself my father

Grace

Criminal

Tiger face

The living

The refuge

Loosestrife

from Riffs & reciprocities

Bourgeois/religion

Democracy/rights

Saints/acquaintances

Sky/weather

Faces/bodies

Lovers/flirtation

Luminescence/seriousness

Scapegoat/criminal

from Different hours

Sixty

Nature

The death of God

Odysseus's secret

At the restaurant

Story

John & Mary

After

Rubbing

The last hours

The reverse side

Zero hour

Afterlife

What goes on

The metaphysicians of South Jersey

Burying the cat

A postmortem guide

from Local visitations

Circular

Knowledge

Sisyphus and the sudden lightness

Sisyphus in the suburbs

The unsaid

The arm

Best

Chekhov in Port Republic

Poe in Margate

Henry James in Cape May

Mary Shelley in Brigantine

Melville at Barnegat Light

from The insistence of beauty

The stairway

Open door blues

The house was quiet

Dismantling the house

Juarez

The answers

Grudges

Cruelties

Sleeping with others

The answers

Another day

In the open field

The waiting

Achilles in love

Five roses in the morning

The insistence of beauty

from Everything else in the world

Salvation

The soul's agents

My ghost

What I might say if I could

Where he found himself

The land of Is

Replicas

Everything else in the world

The unrecorded conversation

Summer nocturne

The slow surge

From the tower at the top of the winding stairs

New poems

Talk to God

At the nihilist's funeral

Last words

The perfect line

Aren't they beautiful?

Language : a love poem

Please understand

History

The mermaid

The room

Worry

The book and I

Mercy

Abandon

An abbreviated tour of the not yet fallen world

The season of grandeur and lies

Excitement

And so

The mistaken

What men want.