Poems

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  • Undelivered letter from the Rev. Charles Smale to The Times, 1874 | Xiuhmolpilli, or The Binding of the Years, November 1507*

    We have spent too long debating Darwin in these pages
  • LIGHT OF THE MOON, PATRIMONY, AN UNWANTED LIGHT

    We listened as a pair of owls rousted
  • A Drone Over Amish Country

    We live in the past because there is nothing else to live in.
  • NIGHT COMMUNION

    We met at the revolving hotel door. You’d shaved
  • Two Poems translated from Swedish by Robert Hedin

    We met Ogden Armour’s yacht
  • CREATION MYTH

    We never expected this. Shapes
  • True West

    We return by foot from pre-plantation oaks,
  • Valediction in Guatemala

    We say goodbye in front
  • Thetis

    We see her through her element, not
  • Berlin

    We see the public statues
  • “Summer with Monika” translated from Polish by Scotia Gilroy

    we spent the days lying on the hot asphalt, fleeing
  • Fresco

    We stayed in a monastery cut up into condos, ours with a terrace of dried-up papery roses overlooking Fiesole.