I could write a poem that no one could tell was for you,
or for anyone. It would just be about the doors,
the old glass doorknobs in my apartment,
and Mission Carmel—the rickety stairs
dense with pigeons all the way up the sealed bell tower;
the brown fountains, dry but overrun with geraniums;
and the cemetery with its smell of wild onions …

—From “Wild Onions”

Poems online:

• “Sonnet with Swan and Long Tall Sally” and Other Poems (The Yale Review)
• “Sonnet with Abalone and Glue” and Other Poems (Beloit Poetry Journal)
• “Sonnet with Juicer and Prism” (The Southern Review)
• “Sonnet with Two Torches and One Cliff” and Other Poems (DMQ Review)
• “Stonehenge” (from Bridge) (video)
• “Catchy Tunes” (Poetry) (from Bridge)
• “The Gift” (Poetry) (from Bridge)
• “The Blizzard” (The Atlantic)
 (from Door to Door)
• “Complaint of the Muse” (Slate) (from Dragging the Lake)
• “Soft-Shoe Sirens” (Verse Daily) (from Dragging the Lake)