Poems

Selected Poems

A Doomsday Prayer for the Polluting Ape is an environmental sonnet, crafted with airport codes. This is the last poem in Nowhere at Home.

A Doomsday Prayer for the Polluting Ape

Under the Bedroom Skylight is a sonnet with palindromic rhymes. This is the first poem in Nowhere at Home.

Under the Bedroom Skylight

As my Three Children Tidy Up their Rooms is an anagrammatic transformation between two poems. The second half of this poem (the sonnet) appears in Nowhere at Home.

As my Three Children Tidy Up their Rooms

Autumn’s End is a 3 1/3 – ina, that is a tritina in which each stanza features an additional, shorter line, whose end word is the initial third of the previous end word. This poem appears in Nowhere at Home.

Tritina and a third

CAT G[enome] is a found bilingual sonnet. It mixes the hendecasyllabic meter of the Spanish tradition with the iambic pentameter of the English one. It uses the minimal alphabet with which one can write the sequences of letters CAT and GATA. This poem appears in Nowhere at Home.

CAT G[enome]

I Feel the Memory of Writing You is a self-referential villanelle that appeared in Rattle in October, 2016. You can find it in Nowhere at Home.

Rattle