Steerage: new and collected poems

Prologue: a little poe,

Steerage.

America.

Lotty is born.

Hannah remembers.

Should Lotty leave home?

Buffalo, 1938.

Counting crows.

Spring and Fall.

Moon Prattle.

Tiny affirmation.

Sal's pups.

Early autum in the mountains.

What the teller knows.

Wings.

Autumn decomposed.

Lunch.

White throated sparrow.

Quiddities.

Blackberries.

Hot food.

Driving home from Elizabethtown.

Tea.

How Reb Katzman got to Heaven .

The Rebbe stops talking.

Katzman at the river.

April storm.

Shabbes

Katzman's tears.

Trayfe Katzman.

Katzman and the ladies.

Katzman's last song.

Boar.

Testament.

Men.

Gag.

Reflections in a furniture store window.

Last things.

Death at the diner.

A new life.

October, 2003.

Government Issue.

Nobody loves the dead enough.

Between rains.

You're ours.

Hospital double.

Court Street (Brookly, 1980)

Midrash: Abraham.

Midrash: Changing places.

Borscht.

Wait.

Lotty calls me.