“Canon Perpetua,” “Remnant,” “Corporation,” and Other Poems

Canon Perpetua Not the round, not again here in the same factory where sound comes raw, explosive off the belt. Nor a bleating, as of sheep the…


“The Frost,” “All We Took,” “The Significance of Olga Penney,” and “Sandpipers”

The Frost after Miguel Hernández, 1910-1942 Already less in January sun than when I woke late, crystal work on every blade of grass, yet here is…


“Diatribe,” “Treatise,” and “To My God in His Affliction”

Diatribe When the sister becomes a burden I drop her at the railroad tracks, her head a turquoise bauble. When the sister grows too heavy I take her…