Poems

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  • Two poems translated from Spanish by Adriana Scopino

    What a fire is kindled in the windows
  • Leave It Lay Where Jesus Flung It

    What a colossal wrong fall she took—that mastodon caught
  • Wartime Pantoum

    Were the mountain women sold as slaves
  • Seven Minutes with Afaa Weaver and Nancy Mitchell

    Were it not for his silver hair
  • On Not Translating Polish Poets

    Were it not
  • One and a Half Poems

    Well it began with a microburst from the North when the moon
  • For Those Whose Lives Have Seen Themselves

    Welcome all who have traveled the long road
  • Six Blessings and a Curse

    Weigh odds. Pray. Pay bills.
  • Handel in London, 1741

    Wedged in a chair near the open window,
  • End of the Century

    We’ve slept too long, and that hasn’t stopped the incidental warping—
  • A History of Mirrors

    We’ve accidentally collided with something real tonight
  • Brasserie and An Annunciation of Blue

    We’re somehow in Closerie des Lilas,