The beforelife: poems

Empty Cathedral

Prescription

Translation

November 14

Memoir

Written with a Baseball Bat-Sized Pencil

Not Now

The Dead Dads

The Midnight Snack

I'm Sorry

The Ascent of Midnight

Body Bag

The Beforelife

Thanks Prayer at the Cove

Accepting an Award

Address Search

Based on a Prayer of Rabi'a al-Adawiyya

First Encounter/The City

The Neighbor

The Wedding

Entry & Prayer

The Poem Said

New Page

Doing a Line of Olga Broumas

Communion

After Apollinaire

I for One

Description of Her Eyes

Tibetans Raped by Chinese Robots

From a Discarded Image

Self-Portrait at 40

Scrolling Marquee

Bathtub Improv

Resurrection: Elegy

Simultaneous Sentences

Goodbye

Slander

Aesthetic

When You See Fame Coming Run

The Speaker

Church

Commercial for Absence

Thinking of France

The Way We Look to Them

The Miracle

Request

Homage

To a Blossoming Nut Case

Learning a Language

Fine Print

Primogeniture

Moving

Planting

PC Lullaby

Dying Thought Near the Summit

Empty Stage

Clarification

Nothingsville, MN