Poems

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  • The Encounter

    Drizzle and formless
  • Black Apples & Landing

    Dropping to the red earth, these, the night bearing
  • From AfterTalk

    Dumuzi spoke: “My sister, I would go with you to my garden
  • Two poems by Louis-Philippe Dalembert translated from French by Nancy Naomi Carlson

    dune of a beauty
  • Beards & The Gospel According to Ian Fleming

    During my sleep, the entire world had been taken over by full beards.
  • Moisei Fishbein translated from the Ukrainian by John Hennessy and Ostap Kin

    During the war and for some time after the war
  • Ant Story

    Each ant was given a different part of the message to carry.
  • The Harrow Plow

    Each spring it sank a little further down
  • Why I Started Writing a Novel

    Earlier today I started writing a novel out of the simple
  • ELEGY WITH FULL DRESS BLUES

    Early in our marriage I would stand
  • Given Plums

    Early July my sister and I filled two sacks of plums from our orchard. We shook each tree until the ripest orbs fell
  • TAROT: THE EMPRESS

    Earth pours wet, quick scimitars