Little houses: poems

Blessed are they who mourn.

Beach town, off-season.

Lost at sea.

Waterline.

How it began I like to think. Going for a ride.

Redemption.

Holy day.

How to run an answering service from a sunroom.

Irish wake.

Ash Wednesday.

Tupperware.

Intermision at a reading.

Secrets.

Repossession.

Every spring.

Life with mother.

Bruises.

Meeting the other woman.

The yellow house.

Slain in the temple.

Marking the site of a toppled Cold War tower.