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  • Three Poems

    Typos   Word instead of wood but, sodden, it smoked when it burned. I wrote god for good who was, once–– in my childhood years, crowned with the nimbus of that capital G–– but now tends to be a placeholder for nightmare, tears. Seeking solace in the pastoral, but grove came out as grave and the lymph nodes, irradiated, naked

  • Three Poems

    I had not thought of her until many years later driving on White Lightning Road with my son.

  • Three Poems

    Somewhere in Brooklyn, a nurse walks out of the hospital where I was born,

  • Three Poems

    We're headed to a stack of paper we call a reem

  • Three Poems

    I never saw the children who lived next door,

  • Three Poems

    It was a beauty, made by the Hmong in Laos

  • Three Poems and a Translation

    In life I was chasing a deer. In sleep the deer

  • Three Poems by Abba Kovner translated from Hebrew by Rachel Neve-Midbar

    I am not holding a mirage

  • Three poems by Li Suo translated from Chinese by Lucas Klein and Henry Zhang

    the cemetery east of river bank road

  • Three poems by Nadia Mifsud translated from Maltese by Miriam Calleja

    abracadabresque this silence spreading sorrow

  • Three Poems from “Where Are the Trees Going”

    Inhabited uninhabited house subject to the air’s structure

  • Three Poems from a Work in Progress

    Deer in the backyard, Schubert’s ninth