Poems

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  • Pitty-Pat

    Oleander to the death of horses
  • Plait

    When I first knotted my hair against the coming of winter, I had grown tired of playing jacks and didn’t yet find boys
  • Plastic Bag Caught in a Tree

    Some dark animal’s
  • Plume

    The old wheelbarrow aimed like a cannon
  • Poem

    I’m going to pretend I’m a painter and just
  • Poem Beginning with a Line from Levis

    As if we’re put on the earth to forget the ending,
  • Poem by Jahangir Hossain translated from the Bengali by Lloyd Schwartz with Jahangir Hossain

    I’ve come again—
  • Poem by Zuzanna Ginczanka (1917-1945) translated from Polish by Alex Braslavsky

    There’s now a so-so year for you: 1933—
  • Poem for Shang Qin

    I’ve been digging my way toward you since the day I was born. I watch the
  • Poem in the Old Style

    At the beginning of the play Hecuba was mourning her great losses. She made lists, blamed the Gods: they could
  • Poem of the Quotidian

    Night falls so swiftly in this part of town
  • Poem to Circe IV

    Ancient bronzes, we reached the sea.