Poems

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  • Memento Mori: Northern White Rhinos

    They are grey, big as boulders,
  • The Daughter and 6AM

    I wish I had another chance
  • Sitting on an Old Bedspread Under an Oak Tree, Watching My Son’s Soccer Practice

    For reasons I can’t explain
  • grief being a swatch of blue & grief being that song from childhood & grief being a pitched tent

    a rectangle in an unborn son’s room
  • From A Line By Kawabata

    A solitary shadow in stillness
  • The Magician and HER

    This is how you peel back layers of bees
  • Two poems by Silvia Guerra, translated from Spanish by Jesse Lee Kercheval and Jeannine Marie Pitas

    Pray gather me, Anemone
  • Hello, July 5th!

    The morning is full of embarrassed flowers
  • On Breathing and Not Breathing—The Sequence

    Once, a man stopped breathing
  • Leprechaun

    The old woman next door would appear in
  • Odyssey to the Self: Seven Minutes with Susan Rich and Nancy Mitchell

    When my mother took out the small skillet, black and flecked
  • The Dog Days of August and Elaine’s Story

    What huge effort to move through