Poems

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  • Two Poems translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa

    I told myself, why not
  • Two Poems translated from the Persian by Sholeh Wolpé

    I’ve heard the volley of a thousand soldiers,
  • Two Stages

    The traveler was certainly sleep-logged when he slipped away from his hotel at sunrise
  • Two Stories and a Poem

    Do you have a canned ham?
  • Two Views of Bercy

    It seems that the sun has stopped and will move no more
  • UBI AMOR IBI OCULUS EST

    Flumes of the late night
  • Ubi Sunt

    In the bottom left corner of Pennsylvania,
  • Ultimatum

    If I forget one character a day
  • Unbeckoning Glass and Time Faking Surprises

    This color is exhaled smoke from a bummed cigarette, a stray cloud for the sky.
  • Uncle

    Here is the man who tells you
  • Uncle Yehuda Sharvit Between Marrakesh and Draa

    When my uncle Yehuda got drunk
  • Undelivered letter from the Rev. Charles Smale to The Times, 1874 | Xiuhmolpilli, or The Binding of the Years, November 1507*

    We have spent too long debating Darwin in these pages