Poems

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  • Same Screen

    Every summer the students at the Bread Loaf School of English
  • Blueprint and Ancient Story

    The poem I want to build needs a vestibule
  • A Brief Portfolio

    have heard through some trembling of their web
  • Two Poems

    Where does it live?
  • November

    Hours ago I was walking with my dog down
  • The Consultation Business

    If I consult the Philosopher’s Tarot to guide my thought
  • Mourning and Melancholia

    If I had two dogs,
  • The Color I Take

    All day the green had soaked me
  • Ambition and House I Didn’t Mean to Build

    In excess always, gorged
  • Two poems by Rafael Alberti translated from Spanish by Lorna Shaughnessy

    Already, a year asleep, some one not waiting
  • About Tea translated from Czech by Stephan Delbos

    before we set out let’s promise each other
  • Passing Royalty and Dostadning: Beginner’s Translation

    I’m sorry I didn’t comprehend sooner how threatening