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  • The Little Engine

    He is not an engine that could. Busted up, broken and backward, call him “fucked-up,”

  • The Podium

    He is bilious, potty-mouthed, at once puffy and rachitic. He sways, eyes red and rheumy as September strawberries.

  • “Bird or Old Man” translated from Bulgarian by Holly Karapetkova 

    He arrived with a bag full of fog.

  • Indelible

    Having worn myself out naming Bewick's wren,

  • VISITORS

    Having just arrived, we are walked down a moonless

  • A Brief Portfolio

    have heard through some trembling of their web

  • Two poems by Katja Gorečan (from The Sufferings of Young Hana /Trpljenje mlade Hane) translated from Slovenian by Martha Kosir

    hana likes to sit on the balcony when it rains.

  • Building the Boat, Trèboul (1930)

    Half-way, the basket nature of the ship

  • Square of Beveled Glass

    Hag––first thought.

  • from Sleeping with Bashō

    Growing out of clouds like a cedar tree—

  • January and The Marrow

    Greetings from the first darkness,

  • LITTLE PIECES OF STRING TOO SMALL TO BE USED | INCEST | HER LISTS | BIRD SONGS

    Granny's label on a box in her attic.