Poems

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  • Milkweed Lullaby and Radio Lullaby

    The days were endless,
  • First Days at the Conservancy

    I’m looking out the window—Paula’s window—
  • Regret

    Later in life, we enter the neighborhood
  • Back in the U.S.S.R

    We weren’t the Beach Boys’ California girls,
  • Once I loved an opera singer from Spain

    for 15 days, maybe 20.
  • Approximations

    Waking up in a borrowed room, in a body
  • Elegy for My Grandmother in the Form of a Cactus

    The way each linked lobe of your cactus swallows all
  • In the Next Life and The Office of Apology

    When I become the most trusted translator of your poems
  • January and The Marrow

    Greetings from the first darkness,
  • Thalia

    I died with them while they were alive.
  • Three Poems

    Every time I try to walk
  • If He Had Missed It Would Have Killed Him

    my uncle said of the dog pa shot