African blackwood
hollowed and belled,Continue reading “Licorice Stick”
Pain built a glass house
around my mother.Continue reading “Pain Built a House”
Personne ne me volera ma mort;
Throat is still,Continue reading “After”
Look, I really didn’t
need to be rescued.Continue reading “Lois Lane Tries to Get Some Sleep”
on the occasion of our daughter Diana’s becoming a Bat MitzvahContinue reading “I Dreamed a Daughter”
The night quiet does not calm me.Continue reading “Undone”
You knew Frida’s lover, Continue reading “My Mother’s Unfinished Crossword Puzzles”
(Listening to Pat Metheny’s Last Train Home)
You travel swift and
sure of your destinationContinue reading “Last Train Home”
Ella’s on the radio,Continue reading “Motherline, to Ruth”