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  • Elegy for a Landscaper

    The holes we find scraped out at the edge

  • Petrarch’s Poem 269, from Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, translated from Italian by Lee Harlin Bahan

    The high column and the green laurel

  • Arête | Eurydice

    The Hemingway who wrote three stories in a crummy hotel

  • Pacemaker

    The heart in vital meter recites.

  • Life Pig

    The hams the hocks the oddly delicate

  • ON SILVER SPOONS

    The Golliwog spoon, we called it, the handle shaped like a head with heavy-lidded eyes and a thick-

  • Ready to Be the Lover She Remembers Forever

    The gods are everywhere

  • To Manuel Bandeira | To Hilda Hilst | To Adélia Prado

    The girls are still   a d o r a b l e

  • The gift of putting something down…

    The gift of putting something down, he had yet to discover it--letting it slide from his grip.

  • Birds in the Night

    The French government, or was it the English government,

  • Trudy Cooks Fish and The General

    The fish seemed fresh that night, as if they’d been caught off the coast near Zanzibar

  • Two Poems translated from the Faroese by Randi Ward

    The first time I was in London,