Searched for Text is a first chapbook collection of poems by a poet alive to the challenges of traditional form, finding ways of expressing themes that are intensely real and many-layered in time, culture and society. His elegies, poems of love and landscape, are uneasily sharp and political. He allows no sentimentality to blur the deep sentiment of his experiences: the American childhood and youth, his growing love of England and his finding places in which to be, always a little uneasily, at home. In 'Un Coup de Des' he says:

Chance authors all we do,
The plot's contrived in retrospect.
Spied once I still look out for you;
Chance authors all we do.
A sea bird shot, a woman met
Ungloving who then strolls from view
Alters to fate as we reflect.
Chance authors all we do,
The plot's contrived in retrospect.

Modern Painters
Blue Rinse Matron
Wine Circle
Slowly Sounds the Bell
The Lesson
Compounds
Circumcision
Ishmael
Inquisition
Dodge Ball
Poetry Reading
Facsimile Folio
Winter Mornings
Revenant
Sie Kommt
End of the Affair
Decorating the Nursery
Tart
Little Black Dress
Un Coup de Des
Beside a Cove