Poems

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  • Letter to a Cyclist and Early Spring

    The cyclist who’s rushing for the usual gold
  • Letter From The Capital

    She writes: now we have wars between historical eras. We fight in time as well as space. 1914 vs. 1939 is a devastating
  • Let the Dead Bury the Dead

    Surely she would want to hear one final song, something from the Carpathians, something folkloric about flying
  • Let Me Hear You

    I am the disappearing point of an inverted pyramid
  • Les Rochers de Belle-Ile [after the painting by Claude Monet]

    No beach here—just the sea
  • Leprechaun

    The old woman next door would appear in
  • Leopard Goes Through Hell Villanelle

    When I am sober my brain calls me names. 

  • LEONTES

    Elusive, but only sweetened by
  • Leaving the Big City

    So afterward I sat by the bosphorus blue water and many dazzling
  • Leave It Lay Where Jesus Flung It

    What a colossal wrong fall she took—that mastodon caught
  • Learning to Play It Again

    While my daughter was learning Clementi —
  • Lazarus

    She sucks the cigarette