Browse Poems

A Metaxas Bestiary

• Aloysius the Lion
• Augustus the Ant
• Barbara, My Ladybug
• Barry the Seagull
• Cassandra the Golden Fish
• Dolores the Crocodile
• Gorgonzola the Mouse
• Helen the Octopus
• Jasper the Inside Mouse
• Jeremy Ox
• Lenora the Mockingbird
• Lulubelle the Cow
• Nick the Tick
• Oliver Cricket
• Persephone the Pachyderm
• Samuel the Clam

A Child's Garden of Bible Verses

• Belly Buttons
• Eutychus Falls Asleep
• James and John
• Lazarus Redux
• Lillies
• The Nine Lost Lepers
• Renaissance

Other Poems

• Paul Revere’s Ride
• Swimming to My Father
• The Sultan of Swat
• Apple Pie Dream
• Derrida and the Umbrella
• James’s Magic Coat
• Nightsnow
• One and One
• Othering
• Peter’s Christening
• Swimming to Heaven
• The Falling Rain
• The Last Wedding
• Vineman