Poems

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  • To a Man in Rags Holding Out a Cup | A 100-year-old Man Asks Me to Write about Something

    I don’t have much
  • To a High Aircraft | Palazzo Maldura

    While now by slow degrees
  • Titanic

    Some of the shoes
  • Timetable

    Somebody dies, for example, or is gone
  • Tiger Story

    Somewhere during my first or second year a tiger came into my life
  • Throw it All Away

    My granddaughter who.  The one alive in speech descends.  A plate
  • Throughway and Passage

    Faces, facing one another on the bus.
  • Throne Verse

    Two years of cinders built up in the hearth,
  • Threnody and Sylvia Plath

    The train coach, Jean—empty except for you,
  • Three Stages of Friendship and Grief

    I was wondering if your eyelashes had fallen out
  • Three prose poems by Marie Lundquist translated from Swedish by Malena Mörling

    Three prose poems by Marie Lundquist translated from Swedish by Malena Mörling   The nights when you practice tenderness, the air like a skin around the words. On top of the crest: the dripping udder, red currant breast, rowanberry blood, and the blush of the apples. The sun is leaping in Leo and Virgo. Such is the month of harvest,

  • Three poems translated from the Polish by Piotr Florczyk

    At night we stood together on guard,