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Poems

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  • Elements and A Streetcar Named Panera

    An abandoned father heals,

  • The Fourth Walk

    Among the ruined are the ruins. Rules even skies can wreck in shreds,

  • The Mercies of Noah’s Wife

    Among the most measly of beasts, she has her pets,

  • Quickies in Widowhood with three instances of laughter (one not narrated), two instances of crying

    Amid the whiteness of cheeses, corn puffs,

  • America

    America, I have a friend for whom everything went south

  • Lamentations

    America    more guns    more    than us

  • Purity | A  Withered  Rose

    Amazing solitude.

  • POSTCARD

    always the dark body hewn asunder; always

  • No Heaven for the King

    Always in the faintest glow of pleasure, and always

  • One for André Breton

    Always for the first time

  • Two poems by Rafael Alberti translated from Spanish by Lorna Shaughnessy

    Already, a year asleep, some one not waiting

  • Rilke 5 Translations

    Almost like on the last day when the dead tear