Birthright: poetry

Expulsion.

When Harriet and I were eight.

Cleft palate.

When she was two and Daddy lifted.

The cormorant.

Work table.

Swagger.

Parade.

Language inicludes Mr. Unaware.

Recess.

Girl Scpout cookies.

Theirs.

Childhood bends beside me.

The night before he shot himself he taught his daughtr how to wind the clock.

Forgiveness.

First blood.

Earth has a thousand terraces.

Landsdown, Pennsylvania, 1950.

A small transaction.

The singer.

At home alone with children.

Poinsetta.

Song.

Allowances.

The quiet led me deep inside.

Naptime.

Stabat mater.

In the foyer of your death.

Epitaph for Liz.

A settled matter.

The whistler.

In a sion cave.

What if this present were the world 's last night.

Twin houses.

Sex is easy but never simple.

Underpainting.

Ekphrasis.

Each unwritten poem.

Carphology.

Sky.

Harvard Square.

Panhandler.

Walking Lucy.

The Pompeii dog.

Christmas.

- Birthright.