“The soul of the old dog won't leave her master.” A poem by Dean Young.

“I am singing sadly to the barn.” A poem by Matthew Zapruder.

“Like the skin of a tightening fist.” A poem by Monica Youn.

“The rain drums down like red ants.” A poem by Anne Sexton.

“When will I have a shiny mind?” A poem by Andrei Codrescu.

“The great quiet humming of the soul at night” A poem by Frank Stanford.

“These memories won't get any bigger, will they?” A poem by Alice Fulton.

Very happy to have been interviewed by @coloradoreview.bsky.social about my poems in their summer issue! Many thanks to Erin Peters for inviting me to talk with her. Link in my bio ❤️

“The distressed of heart will remain here in grey droves for hours.” A poem by Charles Martin.

“It snows on the Sierras as it does on the grave of Apollinaire.” A poem by Tom Clark.

“Where aspens quake with the old ecclesiastical terror.” A poem by Traci Brimhall.

“More than plural: the planet's darkest song.” A poem by Luke Hathaway.

“Patching the fabric of the larger dark” A poem by Geoffrey Brock.

“Carry me out / reel me in” A poem by Kevin Young.

“Advancing across your peripheries to grip you in pleasure.” A poem by John Godfrey.

“He picks up his life where he remembers it” A poem by H.R. Kent.

“As with anxiety so with defenses” A poem by Anne Tardos.

“Is it possible this field is forgotten…?” A poem by Karen Fish.

“Some people will call me any old name.” A poem by Han Shan, translated by J.P. Seaton.

“Within the mind the live blood shouts aloud.” A poem by Louise Bogan.

“Time is a tick, a purr, a drop.” A poem by Eavan Boland.

“There is no anthem or flag only a letter.” A poem by Kristen Case.

“A lightmare, lightly whipped.” A poem by Evie Shockley.

“Why is the heart broken and not squashed . . .” A poem by Sarah Manguso.

“Mind led body to the edge of the precipice.” A poem by Anne Stevenson.

“I am standing in a doorway. My dress is blue.” A poem by Jacqueline Allen Trimble.

“One swath of sight will never be the same.” A poem by A.R. Ammons.

“We lie back to back.” A poem by Jane Kenyon.

Very happy to have a poem from my mss in the new issue of @south85journal.bsky.social ❤️

“She holds a torch for so many lines of flight.” A poem by Becca Klaver.

“Life, friends, is boring.” Oh hey, it’s your old terrible book boyfriend John Berryman with “Dream Song 14,” perhaps the modern poetic apotheosis of ‘I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.” And yet.

“The long file of mule trains and metal” A poem by Peter Gizzi.

“The sigh of a man who has seen all and been redeemed.” A poem by Maxine Kumin.

“You renounced the world so it wouldn’t leave first.” A poem by Richard Siken.

“A moral victory in the middle of the flow of time.” From Ron Padgett’s long poem, Lockdown.

“Every angel is terrifying.” A poem by Michael Palmer.

“You were wasted on this world.” A poem by Natalie Shapero.

“Trawling your dark as owls do.” A poem by Sylvia Plath.

“Barometric pressure is the leading cause of tears.” A poem by Nancy Lee.

“I fight the constant conscious conscious.” A poem by Eileen Myles.

“Possibilities in sleeves of limitation.” A poem by Juliet Patterson.

“Again she shows me the world.” A poem by Ben Doyle.

“Your bones are cushioned by goslings and cygnets.” A poem by Caroline Knox

“Lambswool on the lamb, the glamour of flesh” A poem by Andrea Cohen.

“Like the hands of a florist wrapping bouquets.” A poem by Tomaz Salamun, translated by Brian Henry.

“Clocks fully struck in fields of fading flowers” A poem by Heidy Steidlmayer.

“The owl takes the cello down its throat” A poem by Angie Macri.

“We hardly ever see the moon any more” A poem by Frank O’Hara.

“Skin unzippered like a winter jacket.” A poem by Jim Warner.

“Always the center of my own attraction.” A poem by Bill Berkson.