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The Fact Checkers

They dust off facts like diamonds that excel in perfection under a monocle.

The Feast of Saint Francis

Francis too had his time in the wilderness, lost in the mountains.

The Final Gift

I uttered words I will regret to my last breath, which is already near.

The Fine Arts and Other Poems

Judging beauty, which is keenest, Eye or heart or mind or penis?

The First Meeting

Her lips had the scent of the first kiss, and a thirst for justice.

The Frenchman

Over salad, the Frenchman asked me about work and what I did.

The Garden

Every voice an epitaph, and then a little tune from the neighbor’s yard.

The Gentleman from San Francisco

Until now the man had not really lived, but simply existed, to be sure.

The Girls in Their Summer Dresses

“Some men’re like that. They have to see what they’re missing.”

The Goldilocks Principle

I wanted to ask what her secret was but I was too busy knitting socks.

The Great Awakening

Time stops as the ball rolls tantalizingly around the rim.

The Great Beyond

I could become something new. Improved. Like detergent.

The Great Floating Pig Barn on the Mekong

He probably should have arrested or at least reported me to someone.

The Harp Department in Love

She’s innocent, guilty of nothing but the need to be admired.

The Horse Dealer’s Daughter

So long as there was money, the girl felt established, and brutally proud.

The Invention of the Darling

With no words to speak about our love, we’re each one more alone.

The Jewess and the Templar

Rebecca beheld the sword which was suspended over her people.

The Kingfisher

When she passes you, her name is a bright blue phrase on your tongue.

The Lady’s Murder

The Lost Screenplay

Our camera pans along the porch, and we see each praying woman.

The Magic Piano

Chocolate promises a happy ending. I believed in that promise.

The Mark on the Wall

How shocking it was to discover these real things were not real.

The Masque of the Red Death

All these and security were within. Without was the “Red Death.”

The Merwin Conservancy

Merwin discovered and restored eighteen acres of abandoned land.

The Morning

I woke in surprise to your breath warm as your skin on my neck.

The Morro

Your mother still glows with a smoothness that you envy.

The Most Dangerous Book: Ulysses at One Hundred

His thoughts are never far from the erotic as he roams around Dublin.

The Nature of Nostalgia

Our visions of the world fade like the morning star, lost in the light of day.

The Novel

For two days I’ve been weeping over a nineteenth-century novel.

The Outlaw

I bring out the emergency in people and I don’t know why.