His poems have appeared in Poetry , Poetry East , Harvard Review , New York Quarterly , and many other journals. He teaches art history and American studies at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. One bay window finds Bryant's pond a cold bright stone of light in hands held out, an offering to the slanting dark of rains that won't end soon. In Dublin magpies screech, chevrons of gray and black and white, brandishing sharp-tail knives. In Lund there rattle unkindly ravenings, swarms of mismatched skies.
Huge crows haunt Long Island oaks.
High cries recollect, but I cannot make reply.