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  • 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

  • Sitting on an Old Bedspread Under an Oak Tree, Watching My Son’s Soccer Practice

    For reasons I can’t explain

  • The Daughter and 6AM

    I wish I had another chance

  • Memento Mori: Northern White Rhinos

    They are grey, big as boulders,

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

    I’ve come again—

  • The dream and Useless is as useless doesn’t

    For awhile I had a drawer full of electronic stuff,

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

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

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

    For the living, this is the ground,

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

    while they sort out who helped more

  • The Book of Guests

    They gamboled toward me on the plain—two lambs

  • Genesis and The Anonymous City

    God made the world with his mouth.

  • Fragments of The Sacrificial World

    Porpoises feed every morning in the shallows