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Poems

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  • Beginning and Whatever Doesn’t Kill Your Mother Makes Her Stronger

    One of the first days my mom’s in the ICU, I try to describe

  • when it is time

    you pass that bridge

  • ASH

    I shall go back

  • Football & the English Language

    My first year as high school coach, five points

  • Fragments of The Sacrificial World

    Porpoises feed every morning in the shallows

  • Genesis and The Anonymous City

    God made the world with his mouth.

  • The Book of Guests

    They gamboled toward me on the plain—two lambs

  • Ekaterina Derisheva’s “in the ‘war’ mode” and “Houses Discuss” translated by Tatiana Retivov

    while they sort out who helped more

  • Salgado Maranhão’s “Mythic Ground” translated by Alexis Levitin

    For the living, this is the ground,

  • PROTECT YOUR HOME (Interpret It Well), a short film with music by Ches Smith

    The composition has two movements, one slow and one fast.

  • The dream and Useless is as useless doesn’t

    For awhile I had a drawer full of electronic stuff,

  • Poem by Jahangir Hossain translated from the Bengali by Lloyd Schwartz with Jahangir Hossain

    I’ve come again—