Once: poems

Once

Mothered

My aunts

Diagnosis

Chemotherapy

Twenty-first century fireworks

The great escape

Anticipatory grief

When it went to her brain

Extraneous

Hart

Preparation

Elegy : hill without scar

Frontier

Appeal to the self

My life as a subject

On marriage

Mala mala

Churchyard

In the same boat

Theory vs. practice

Ophelia to the court

Anesthesia

Love poem

Apartment living

My life as a ruler

Magnolia

Sonogram

After her death

Sex, again

Inventory

In defense of pain

My mother

Localized

Pike's Peak

The resistance to metaphor

Seven months later

Still

Faith.