poems:

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• "Self Portrait as Ishmael's Arm"

• "Maine Room"

• “Rain, or a local poet long gone returns home.”

• “For the Blind Man in the Basilica di Santa Croce, Florence.”

• “Maine Room,” "Short Story for the NSA,” and “Murder Mystery Poem.”

• “Certain things here are quietly American” and “Archeology.”

• “Elegy with Penelope & a Vineyard in It.” 

• “Stroke City,” “The Arab Baths in Ronda,” and “El Café a la Esquina de Auga y Vida.”

• “What are you reading?"

• “Stalin on Stage,” “The Country of Nostalgia” and “Telegraph Ghazal.”

• “Achilles in Jasper, Texas.”

• Many others on From the Fishouse

prose:

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• “Why I Write.”

• “Selected Periodic Table of the Elements (with notes).”

• “Bird Stories: on the insistence of poetry and the persistence of memoir.” ​