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  • In Case the Messiah Comes

    In Case the Messiah Comes   Split screen city. East doesn’t go West and West doesn’t go East. Occupied neighborhoods, buildings on buildings on dust of history.   Ramat Shlomo Haredi new homes with their backside to Shuafat. The Red brick headquarters model of 770 Eastern Parkway rising amid the white stone–in case the Messiah comes and wants to live

  • Two Poems by George Seferis, translated from modern Greek by Jennifer R. Kellogg

    George Seferis, Two Poems,  translated from modern Greek by Jennifer R. Kellogg     Holy Saturday   Tomorrow, the brilliant light of Easter. It will rain, but at least we won’t be in the office. The lambs, in the oven, remind me of a huge nursery.   Korce, Albania 5.1.1937     Μεγάλο Σάββατο   Αύριο Λαμπρή. Βρέχει αλλά δε

  • Venn Diagrams

    Venn Diagrams   X-rays, muons, ultraviolet radiation— X-rays can diagnose fractures in the skull; muons can map spaces inside the pyramids at Giza; ultraviolet radiation kills bacteria in well water—in a Venn diagram, circles overlap. An array of sharpened pencils in a cup; cars parked at a casino; along a trail, small puffballs—these clusters manifest chance; and, pondering three who

  • Three prose poems by Marie Lundquist translated from Swedish by Malena Mörling

    Three prose poems by Marie Lundquist translated from Swedish by Malena Mörling   The nights when you practice tenderness, the air like a skin around the words. On top of the crest: the dripping udder, red currant breast, rowanberry blood, and the blush of the apples. The sun is leaping in Leo and Virgo. Such is the month of harvest,

  • Daniel J. Ayoroa translated from Spanish by Frances Simán and Mihaela Moscaliuc  

    Daniel J. Ayoroa translated from Spanish by Frances Simán and Mihaela Moscaliuc   Ada Byron   It can be said that the first weaves algebraic drawings, just as Jacquard’s loom weaves flowers and leaves. Ada Byron I   Through a network of windows I discover that Ada Byron (daughter of Lord Byron) devised the first computer algorithm.

  • Corona & At a Time Like This

    A miniscule David without
  • Therapon, III, 5 

    …you whose waters never breathe   whose
  • A Brief Portfolio

    “Digital streaming, brother, rates of flow in time
  • Phone Call: Lesson in Style and The Story of Civilization

    “Everything feels all swollen and puffy, like my brain
  • Undertaking

    “It is certainly strange
  • Three Poems

    “Today we shall begin discussing Longinus’ treatise On the Sublime.”
  • A Brief Portfolio

    “What is truth?” Pilate asked.  Before Jesus could answer Pilate was on his way out the door.