Poems

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  • Two poems by Natalia Toledo, in trilingual translation (Zapotec to Spanish to English)

    Mantis mantis I want to know
  • Laboring to explain

    in Ants and Men: Island Apocalypse,
  • A Demitasse of Extinction

    So funny how that uncanny, unfunny man sought you out on a rainy day in Istanbul—you were in earshot of the bazaar and smoking a hookah, and, of course, it was Ramadan.
  • A Poem and Two Fables

    The breeze this morning pulls on the surface of the bay,
  • Undertaking

    “It is certainly strange
  • Night Rising

    Silence falls in tiny waves, women shutting
  • A Brief Portfolio

    I said goodbye to a friend who left a hole filled
  • Promiscuous and Thanking My Breasts

    Promiscuous is what my mother
  • κάθαρσης

    Dr. Clark ordered daisies
  • The Wars Between the Wars Between the Borders that Were Not There

    You had to know how bad the Nazis were
  • Chaja-Lea Returns

    This is where we were
  • A Snow Woman

    A window on a side yard in winter.