Some say it was a pear Eve ate. Why else the shape of the womb,

I am only leaving you for a handful of days but it feels as thought i will be gone forever the way the door closes

Into the gravity of my life, the serious ceremonies of polish and paper and pen, has come this manic animal

I married you for all the wrong re… charmed by your dangerous family h… by the innocent muscles, bulging l… weapons under your shirt, by your… the colors of painted scraps of su…

I have banked the fires of my body into a small but steady blaze here in the kitchen where the dough has a life of its…

What we want is never simple. We move among the things we thought we wanted: a face, a room, an open book

For Jews, the Cossacks are always… Therefore I think the sun spot on… is melanoma. Therefore I celebrat… New Year’s Eve by counting my annual dead.

When our cars touched When you lifted the hood of mine To see the intimate workings under… When we were bound together By a pulse of pure energy,

The gathering family throws shadows around us, it is the late afternoon Of the family. There is still enough light

1. THE SACRIFICE On this tile the knife like a sickle-moon hangs in the painted air

We think of hidden in a white dres… among the folded linens and sachet… of well-kept cupboards, or just ou… sending jellies and notes with no… to all the wondering Amherst neigh…

It was early May, I think a moment of lilac or dogwood when so many promises are made it hardly matters if a few are bro… My mother and father still hovered

We invent our gods the way the Greeks did, in our own image’€”but magnified. Athena, the very mother of wisdom, squabbled with Poseidon

I want to write you a love poem as headlong as our creek after thaw when we stand